The significance of serpins in the regulation of proteases in the male genital tract

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 425, Issue , 1997, Pages 163-176

  Christensson, Anders ^a   Bjartell, Anders ^a   Lilja, Hans ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN A; KALLIKREIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 3; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED ALPHA2 GLYCOPROTEIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITOR COMPLEX; ENZYME REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEMINAL PLASMA;

EID: 0031454467     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5391-5_16     Document Type: Article

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