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miRNA Expression Analyses in Prostate Cancer Clinical Tissues
Published on: September 8, 2015
Expression of melatonin and serotonin in human prostate tumors
1St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, North-Western Division of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. kvetnoy48@mail.ru
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|November 26, 2008
Abstract:
We present the results of immunohistochemical study demonstrating possible variants of neuroimmunoendocrine regulation of prostate tumor growth with serotonin, melatonin, and other hormones produced by neuroendocrine cells via paracrine and autocrine secretory mechanisms.
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