Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 223-228 , April 2008

Expression of steroidogenic enzymes and sex-steroid receptors in human prostate

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.02.004

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 223-228 , April 2008

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