Quantitative determination of lobe specificity of mRNA expression of androgen-dependent genes in the rat prostate gland

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-132

  Suzuki, Tomoharu ^a   Fujimoto, Nariaki ^b   Kitamura, Shigeyuki ^a   Ohta, Shigeru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen regulation; Lobe specific expression; Quantitative RT PCR; Rat prostate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CALRETICULIN; FLUTAMIDE; KALLIKREIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTATEIN; PROSTATIC SECRETORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33947572344     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K06-142     Document Type: Article

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