Unique features of the basal cells of human prostate epithelium

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 436-446

  El Alfy, Mohamed ^a   Pelletier, Georges ^a   Hermo, Louis S ^b   Labrie, Fernand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Basal cells; Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Electron microscopy; Intracrinology; Luminal cells; Prostate; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; UROLOGY;

ANDROGEN RECEPTORS; BASAL CELLS; BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; HUMAN PROSTATE; INTRACRINOLOGY; LABORATORY ANIMALS; LUMENAL CELL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCERS; UNDIFFERENTIATED CELLS;

CELLS;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; STROMA; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034565921     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20001201)51:5<436::AID-JEMT6>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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