Expression of urocortin mRNA and peptide in the human prostate and in prostatic adenocarcinoma

Prostate

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 167-172

  Arcuri, Felice ^a   Cintorino, Marcella ^a   Florio, Pasquale ^a   Floccari, Federica ^a   Pergola, Loreta ^a   Romagnoli, Roberta ^a   Petraglia, Felice ^a   Tosi, Piero ^a   Del Vecchio, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Prostatic tissue; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; UCN

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036680095     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pros.10094     Document Type: Article

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