Proximal location of mouse prostate epithelial stem cells: a model of prostatic homeostasis.

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Published in J Cell Biol on June 24, 2002

Authors

Akira Tsujimura1, Yasuhiro Koikawa, Sarah Salm, Tetsuya Takao, Sandra Coetzee, David Moscatelli, Ellen Shapiro, Herbert Lepor, Tung-Tien Sun, E Lynette Wilson

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1: Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.

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