Dehydroepiandrosterone increases in zone of glutamine synthetase- positive hepatocytes in female rat liver: A putative androgenic effect

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 375-380

  Mayer, Doris ^a   Buniatian, Gayane ^b   Metzger, Christel ^a   Bannasch, Peter ^a   Gebhardt, Rolf ^c  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CARCINOGEN; EOSIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; HEMATOXYLIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR; PRASTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIVER CELL; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PEROXISOME; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; LIVER; MALE; MICROBODIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033025694     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050370     Document Type: Article

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