Experimental endocrine therapies promote epithelial cytodifferentiation and ciliogenesis in the gerbil female prostate

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 328, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 617-624

  Santos, Fernanda Cristina Alcântara ^a   Falleiros Jr , Luiz Roberto ^b   Corradi, Lara Silvia ^a   Vilamaior, Patricia Simone Leite ^c   Taboga, Sebastião Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c Biology Sciences School   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ciliogenesis; Epithelium; Female prostate; Letrozole; Meriones unguiculatus (Rodentia); Mongolian gerbil; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

LETROZOLE; TESTOSTERONE CIPIONATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FEMALE; GERBIL; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SEROLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CILIA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; MALE; NITRILES; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIAZOLES;

GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34247623152     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-007-0381-y     Document Type: Article

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