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Isolation, Culture, and Characterization of Prostate Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts
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[Growth factors in blood serum of patients with prostatic adenoma]
Urologiia (Moscow, Russia : 1999)
|August 2, 2008
Abstract:
A highly sensitive enzyme immunoassay has found that patients with prostatic adenoma aged 57-81 years have a higher concentration of the basic factor of growth of fibroblasts (bFGF) compared to controls (healthy males)--from 1.61 +/- 0.5 to 44.0 +/- 10.8 pg/ml while concentration of the transformation factor beta-1 is subnormal (19.1 +/- 2.2 to 3.5 +/- 1.2 pg/ml).
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