Effect of androgen concentration on seminal vesicle blood flow in rats - Establishment of new highly sensitive simultaneous androgen measurement method

Urology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 218-223

  Kashiwagi, Bunzo ^a   Shibata, Yasuhiro ^b   Ono, Yoshihiro ^b   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^b   Honma, Seijiro ^b   Yamanaka, Hidetoshi ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; FINASTERIDE; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMINAL VESICLE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEMINAL VESICLES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 22344439108     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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