Atypical fetal prostate development is associated with ipsilateral hypoplasia of the Wolffian ducts in the ACI rat

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 747-753

  Hofkamp, Luke E ^a   Bradley, Sarahann ^a   Geliebter, Jan ^b   Timms, Barry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACI rat; Prostate development; Urogenital abnormalities; Utricle; Wolffian ducts

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOPLASIA; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IPSILATERAL HYPOPLASIA; MALE; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; TESTIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UROGENITAL SINUS; UTRICLE; VAS DEFERENS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MESODERM; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ORGANOGENESIS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; WOLFFIAN DUCTS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; WOLFFIA;

EID: 77952629503     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21073     Document Type: Article

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