Histomorphometric study of the inferior urinary tract of adult female rats during the interval between castration and hormonal replacement

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 111-116

  Rocha, M A ^a,b   Sartori, M G F ^a   Girao M J B C ^a   De Jesus Simoes M ^a   Baracat, E C ^a   Rodrigues of Lima, G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climacteric; Estrogen; Lower urinary tract

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER MUSCLE; CASTRATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; STAINING; THICKNESS; URINARY TRACT; UROTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; EPITHELIUM; ESTRADIOL CONGENERS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; TIME FACTORS; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0037785135     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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