Induction of progesterone receptor immunoexpression in stromal tissue throughout the male reproductive tract after neonatal oestrogen treatment of rats

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 117-131

  Williams, K ^a   Saunders, P T K ^a   Atanassova, N ^a   Fisher, J S ^a   Turner, K J ^a   Millar, M R ^a   McKinnell, C ^a   Sharpe, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diethylstilboestrol; Dorsolateral prostatic complex; Epididymis; Epithelial cells; Estrogen receptor ; Estrogen receptor ; Progesterone receptor; Seminal vesicles; Stromal cells; Vas deferens

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STROMA CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; GENITALIA, MALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0034690993     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(00)00231-8     Document Type: Article

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