[CITATION][C] Neuroendocrine cells in the human prostate gland

PERA ABRAHAMSSON… - Journal of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
PERA ABRAHAMSSON, PA di Sant'Agnese
Journal of andrology, 1993Wiley Online Library
O ne prostatic cell type, whose sole role is regulatory, which produces several different
growth regulatory factors, which is abundantly present in all prostates, and which co-
proliferates as a malignant epithelial component in most, if not all, prostatic
adenocarcinomas has been almost totally ignored until very recently. This cell is the
neuroendocrine(NE) cell (also known as the endocrine-paracrine or APUD cell)(di
Sant'Agnese, I 992a).
O ne prostatic cell type, whose sole role is regulatory, which produces several different growth regulatory factors, which is abundantly present in all prostates, and which co-proliferates as a malignant epithelial component in most, if not all, prostatic adenocarcinomas has been almost totally ignored until very recently. This cell is the neuroendocrine(NE) cell (also known as the endocrine-paracrine or APUD cell)(di Sant’Agnese, I 992a).
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