Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) in penile and prostate growth in the rat during sexual maturation

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-57

  Gelman, Joel ^a   Garbán, Hermes ^a   Shen, Ruoqing ^a   Ng, Chris ^a   Cai, Liping ^a   Rajfer, Jacob ^a   Gonzalez Cadavid, Nestor F ^a,b  

^a Univ of California Sch of Medicine   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptors; Penis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOWN-REGULATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PENIS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEXUAL MATURATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031889537     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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