Reconstruction of prostatic acinus-like structure from ventral and dorsolateral prostatic epithelial cells of the rat in three-dimensional collagen gel matrix culture

Journal of Urology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1025-1031

  Ma, Yu Lin ^a   Fujiyama, Chisato ^a   Masaki, Zenjiro ^a   Sugihara, Hajime ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cell culture; collagen; PAP; prostate; PSA

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; COLLAGEN GEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031013184     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)65135-8     Document Type: Article

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