Species-specific detection of growth factor gene expression in developing murine prostatic tissue

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-99

  Haughney, Peter C ^a   Hayward, Simon W ^a,b   Dahiya, Rajvir ^a   Cunha, Gerald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STROMA CELL; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 7; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; MALE; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031799065     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.1.93     Document Type: Article

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