The development of benign prostatic hyperplasia by trans-differentiation of prostatic stromal cells

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 1001-1004

  Rumpold, H ^a   Untergasser, G ^a   Madersbacher, S ^b   Berger, P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; GROWTH INHIBITOR; GROWTH PROMOTOR; SEX HORMONE; STEROID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; BLADDER STONE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERPLASIA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; STROMA CELL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0036696534     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00062-1     Document Type: Article

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