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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Differentiation. 2018 Sep 4;103:24–45. doi: 10.1016/j.diff.2018.08.005

Table 2.

Published images of human prostatic bud elongation, ductal branching, ductal canalization and secretory cytodifferentiation.

Specimen Age
 (weeks)
Analysis/focus of paper Reference
32, 38 & 40 Histology (Zondek and Zondek, 1979)
28 & 30 Histology (Xia et al., 1990)
22 & 28 Keratin IHC (Wernert et al., 1987)
8–25 Neuroendocrine cell differentiation (Xue et al., 2000;
Szczyrba et al., 2017)
12, 16, 28, 29, 39 Sonic & desert hedgehog (Zhu et al., 2007)
18, 19 & 23 Estrogen receptor beta (ESR2) (Adams et al., 2002)
13 & 25 Striated & smooth muscle histochemistry (Sebe et al., 2005)
19, 21 & 22 Estrogen receptor alpha & beta (ESR1 & 2) (Shapiro et al., 2005a;
Shapiro et al., 2005b)
19 to 36 Androgen receptor (Aumuller et al., 1998)
9–16 Sonic hedgehog (Barnett et al., 2002)
19–22 5a-reductase
immunohistochemistry
(Radmayr et al., 2008;
Levine et al., 1996;
Lunacek et al., 2007;
Bonkhoff et al., 1996)
18–23 SOX9 immunohistochemistry (Wang et al., 2008)