Lobe-specific telomerase activity in the intact adult brown Norway rat prostate and its regional distribution within the prostatic ducts

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 513-519

  Banerjee, Partha P ^a   Banerjee, Subhadra ^a   Zirkin, Barry R ^a   Brown, Terry R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE FLUID; RAT; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 0031760169     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.2.5761     Document Type: Article

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