Postnatal growth of the ventral prostate in Wistar rats: A stereological and morphometrical study

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 885-892

  Vilamaior, Patrícia S L ^a   Taboga, Sebastião R ^b   Carvalho, Hernandes F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epithelial growth; Prostate development; Prostate secretory activity; Rat ventral prostate; Stereology

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; STEREOLOGY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM; MALE; MITOSIS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33747116139     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20363     Document Type: Article

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