Immunocytochemical localization of 5α-reductase type 1 in the prostate of normal and castrated rats

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-109

  Miyamoto, Tadayuki ^a   Kagawa, Susumu ^a   Kitagawa, Kouki ^b   Futaki, Shiroh ^c   Yokoi, Hiromichi ^a   Tsuruo, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishimura, Kazunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE TYPE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; ENZYME HISTOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; ORCHIECTOMY; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030058164     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01696149     Document Type: Article

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