The effect of castration on endothelins, their receptors and endothelin converting enzyme in rat prostate

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 366, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 166-176

  Takahashi, Wataru ^a   Afiatpour, Parviz ^a   Foster, Harris E ^a   Ikeda, Kazuyoshi ^a   Wada, Yoshihiro ^a   Weiss, Robert M ^a   Latifpour, Jamshid ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Castration; Endothelin; Prostate; Rat; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN 3; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN CONVERTING ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; TESTOSTERONE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ENDOTHELIN B RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN-CONVERTING ENZYME 1; METALLOPROTEINASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA; ANIMAL; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIOASSAY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMAL; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIN-1; ENDOTHELIN-3; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROSTATE; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ENDOTHELIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ANIMALS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; ORGAN SIZE; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN A; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN B;

EID: 0035992674     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-002-0575-5     Document Type: Article

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