Update on the management of adolescent varicocele

F1000 Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Glassberg, Kenneth I ^a   Korets, Ruslan ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; POLLEN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 77955072196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17575931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3410/M2-25     Document Type: Review

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