Relaxin is a key mediator of prostate growth and male reproductive tract development

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1055-1067

  Samuel, Chrishan S ^a,b   Tian, Hongsheng ^a   Zhao, Ling ^c   Amento, Edward P ^a,b  

^a Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN; RELAXIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SIZE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROSTATE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RELAXIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0042809489     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.LAB.0000079784.81186.B9     Document Type: Article

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