Elastic system of the rat ventral prostate and its modifications following orchiectomy

Prostate

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-34

  De Carvalho, Hernandes Faustino ^a   Vilamaior, Patrícia S L ^a   Taboga, Sebastião R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Castration; Elastic related fibers; Elastin; Microfibrils; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; ELASTIC FIBER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ELASTIN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORCHIECTOMY; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030956067     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19970615)32:1<27::AID-PROS4>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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