Ultrastructural and biochemical observations on the early changes in apoptotic epithelial cells of the rat prostate induced by castration

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-136

  Kwong, Joseph ^a   Choi, H L ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Chan, Franky L ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Castration; Prostate; Proteases; Rat (Sprague Dawley); TUNEL labeling; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORCHIECTOMY; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032823410     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004419900057     Document Type: Article

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