Effects of endogenous galanin on the growth of regenerating rat adrenal gland, as investigated by the metaphase-arrest and the PCNA-immunostaining techniques

Biomedical Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 211-214

  Ziolkowska, Agnieska ^a   Tortorella, Cinzia ^b   Hochól, Anna ^a   Trejter, Marcin ^a   Nussdorfer, Gastone G ^b   Malendowicz, Ludwik K ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; GALANIN; GALANIN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITION KINETICS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038542698     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.22.211     Document Type: Article

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