Age-related histopathological lesions in the Mongolian gerbil ventral prostate as a good model for studies of spontaneous hormone-related disorders

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-24

  Campos, Silvana Gisele Pegorin ^b   Zanetoni, Cristiani ^b   Scarano, Wellerson Rodrigo ^b   Vilamaior, Patrícia Simone Leite ^a   Taboga, Sebastião Roberto ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cellular proliferation; Gerbil; Prostate cancer; Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia; Ventral prostate

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL DEATH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GERBIL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MALE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MONGOLIA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN DEFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGING; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROGENS; GERBILLINAE; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38049120966     PISSN: 09599673     EISSN: 13652613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2007.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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