Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | free PSA performs significantly better than total PSA at predicting thresholds of prostate volume: free PSA may be used to estimate prostate volume and can be a useful tool in making therapeutic decisions in Chinese men with benign prostatic hyperplasia | Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | - |
- |
- |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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serum | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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prostate-specific antigen | - |
Homo sapiens |
PSA | - |
Homo sapiens |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | total PSA significantly correlates with prostate volume in Chinese men with biopsy-proven benign prostatic hyperplasia, but the correlation between free PSA and prostate volume is much stronger. Age does not significantly correlate with PSA, slight associations between age and both prostate volume and free PSA | Homo sapiens |