Normal prostate morphology in relaxin-mutant mice

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 440-450

  Ganesan, Avinash ^a   Klonisch, Thomas ^b   McGuane, Jonathan T ^a   Feng, Shu ^c   Agoulnik, Alexander I ^c   Parry, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Rxfp1; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; RELAXIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROSTATE; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PROSTATE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RELAXIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 62549122130     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD08133     Document Type: Article

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