Quantitative study of mast cells in experimentally induced benign prostatic hyperplasia

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-104

  Papadoukakis, Stefanos ^a,b   Kyroudi Voulgari, Aspasia ^b   Truss, Michael C ^a   Perea, Despina ^b   Mitropoulos, Dionisios ^b  

^a KLINIKUM DORTMUND   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Citral; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

CITRAL; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRANULATION; GIEMSA STAIN; GRANULE CELL; MALE; MAST CELL; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RAT; STAINING; STROMA; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MAST CELLS; MONOTERPENES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77649123892     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000273475     Document Type: Article

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