Early effects of castration on the vascular system of the rat ventral prostate gland

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1920-1926

  Shabisgh, Ahmad ^a   Tanji, Nozomu ^a   D'Agati, Vivette ^a   Burchardt, Martin ^a   Rubin, Mark ^a   Goluboff, Erik T ^a   Heitjan, Daniel ^a   Kiss, Alex ^a   Buttyan, Ralph ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CASTRATION; FIBRIN FORMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0345030211     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.4.6644     Document Type: Article

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