Ultrastructural changes in subepithelial capillaries and their surrounding stroma in rat prostate and seminal vesicle after castration

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-38

  Ono, Yoshihiro ^a   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^a   Yuasa, Hisako ^a   Kurokawa, Kohei ^a   Fukabori, Yoshitatsu ^a   Yamanaka, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capillary; Castration; Prostate; Seminal vesicle; Stroma

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CASTRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; STROMA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; EPITHELIUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGANELLES; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINAL VESICLES;

EID: 0242441564     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.201.29     Document Type: Article

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