prostate induction

id: GO:0060514
name: prostate induction
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The close range interaction of the urogenital sinus mesenchyme and the urogenital sinus epithelium that causes the cells of the urogenital sinus epithelium to change their fates and specify the development of the prostate gland.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0001759organ induction
GO:0060685regulation of prostatic bud formation
GO:2000243positive regulation of reproductive process