Regional expression of transforming growth factor-α in rat ventral prostate during postnatal development, after androgen ablation, and after androgen replacement

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3005-3013

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

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031761485     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.6.6060     Document Type: Article

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