Differentiation of rat neonatal ventral prostates grown in a serum-free organ culture system

Prostate

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-42

  Lipschutz, Joshua H ^a   Foster, Barbara A ^b   Cunha, Gerald R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Organ culture; Prostate

Indexed keywords

DNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGAN GROWTH; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 0030906678     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19970615)32:1<35::AID-PROS5>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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