Ultrastructure of the normal adult human female prostate gland (Skene's gland)

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-61

  Zaviacic M ^a   Jakubovska V ^a   Belosovic M ^a   Breza, J ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Basal (reserve) cells; Female prostate (Skene gland); Intermediary cells; Secretory (luminal) cells; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL GRANULE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL RENEWAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROVILLUS; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RIBOSOME; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECRETORY CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; REFERENCE VALUES; URETHRA;

EID: 0033979786     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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