Stereological Quantification of Nerve Fibers Immunoreactive to PGP 9.5, NPY, and VIP in rat prostate during postnatal development

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 197-204

  Rodríguez, Rosario ^a   Pozuelo, José M ^a   Martín, Rocío ^b   Arriazu, Riánsares ^a   Santamaría, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL NUESTRA SEÑORA DE SONSOLES   (Spain)

^c AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Innervation; Neuropeptides

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GENE PRODUCT; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PUBERTY; RAT; STEREOMETRY;

EID: 14344259480     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2005.tb01086.x     Document Type: Article

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