The role of estrogens in normal and abnormal development of the prostate gland

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1089, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-13

  Prins, Gail S ^a   Huang, Liwei ^a   Birch, Lynn ^a   Pu, Yongbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Estrogen; Fibroblast growth factor 10; Hoxb 13; Nkx3.1; Prostate; Sonic hedgehog; Steroid receptors

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RETINOID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX3 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AGING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LIFE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; REDUCTION KINETICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RAT; REVIEW;

ERINACEIDAE;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC DISEASES; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RATS; RECEPTORS, STEROID;

EID: 33847790692     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1386.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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