Hypothetic association between greater sympathetic activity and prostate cancer

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 442-443

  Rao, JianMing ^a   Yang, JinRui ^a   Liu, ZiTing ^a   Wang, Long ^a   Yin, Zhuo ^a   Liu, LongFei ^a   He, Qian ^a   Yang, LuoYan ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

AGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 47549099386     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.03.039     Document Type: Article

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