Influence of diethylstilbestrol, leuprolelin (a luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone analog), finasteride (a 5α-reductase inhibitor), and castration on the lobar subdivisions of the rat prostate

Prostate

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-14

  Yamashita, Atsushi ^a   Hayashi, Norio ^a   Sugimura, Yoshiki ^a   Cunha, Gerald R ^b   Kawamura, Juichi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

androgen action; castration; interlobar heterogeneity; prostate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DNA; FINASTERIDE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; LEUPROLELIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DNA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FINASTERIDE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE; ZINC;

EID: 0029952459     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(199607)29:1<1::AID-PROS1>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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