Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in the lower urinary tract in rats after castration and estrogen administration

Menopause

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 500-505

  Zucchi, Eliana V M ^a,b   Sartori, Marair G F ^a   Jármy Di Bella, Zsuzsanna K I ^a   Da Silva, Ismael D C G ^a   Rodrigues De Lima, Geraldo ^a   Girão, Manoel J B C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Lower urinary tract; Periurethral vessels; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; STEROID HORMONE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URETHRA; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 33745278876     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gme.0000183657.27937.c4     Document Type: Article

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