Changes in the androgen levels in the ventral prostate of spontaneously hypertensive rats after castration

BJU International

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 406-411

  Hu, Mingqiu ^a,b   Xin, Dianqi ^a,b   Chen, Jun ^c   Sun, Guofeng ^b   Wang, Yiming ^b   Na, Yanqun ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Androgen; Castration; Prostate; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORCHIECTOMY; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 68049138043     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08442.x     Document Type: Article

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