Administration of extract of mushroom Phellinus linteus induces prostate enlargement with increase in stromal component in experimentally developed rat model of benign prostatic hyperplasia

Urology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 455-460

  Shibata, Yasuhiro ^a   Kashiwagi, Bunzo ^a   Arai, Seiji ^a   Fukabori, Yoshitatsu ^a   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHELLINUS LINTEUS EXTRACT; SEX HORMONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHELLINUS LINTEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STROMA CELL;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 23744461562     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.03.036     Document Type: Article

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