Effects of castration and testosterone administration on angiotensin II receptor mRNA expression and apoptosis-related proteins in rat urinary bladder

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 211-219

  Nakazawa, Ryuto ^a   Tanaka, Masami ^a   Takahashi, Takeshi ^a   Kobayashi, Shinichi ^a   Iwamoto, Teruaki ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Apoptosis; Castration; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN II; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 34249050193     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K06-134     Document Type: Article

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