Morphometric and ultrastructure features of the ventral prostate of rats (Rattus norvegicus) submitted to long-term nicotine treatment

Andrologia

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 142-151

  Carvalho, C A F ^a   Favaro, W J ^a   Padovani, C R ^b   Cagnon, V H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nicotine; Smoking; Stereology; Ultrastructure; Ventral prostate

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PROSTATE ATROPHY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SECRETORY CELL; STEREOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NICOTINE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS;

EID: 33745896809     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2006.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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