Comparative light and electron microscopic study of the human, dog and rat prostate: An approach to an experimental model for human benign prostatic hyperplasia (light and electron microscopic analysis) — a review

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 91-104

  Bartsch, G ^a,b   Rohr, H P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dog prostate; Human prostatic tissue; Light and electron microscopy; Measurements of two dimensional cross sections; Stereology; Ventral lobe of rat prostate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMAN CELL; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PROSTATE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RATS;

EID: 0018883927     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000280309     Document Type: Article

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