I just thought I would start a thread that includes lists of papers talking about different medications and their effects on androgen receptors. Also, some paper about neurosteroids. Please take a look, there are some pretty interesting papers out there. The information in these papers may be very relevant to what is going on with us. Further shows how important it is for us to get that gene expression study complete.
Tamoxifen decreases progesterone and nuclear androgen receptors in the human prostate.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6084754
Neurosteroid Biosynthesis Upregulation: A Novel Promising Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and PTSD
http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/17582/InTech-Neurosteroid_biosynthesis_upregulation_a_novel_promising_therapy_for_anxiety_disorders_and_ptsd.pdf
Role of Cadmium in the Regulation of AR Gene Expression and Activity
http://endo.endojournals.org/content/143/1/263.abstract
Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of human androgen receptor expression by androgen.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8413317
Mechanisms of selenium down-regulation of androgen receptor signaling in prostate cancer.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16648561