Oxytocin: A paracrine regulator of prostatic function

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 69-72

  Nicholson, Helen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVIEW;

HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030132074     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0010069     Document Type: Article

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