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Effect of castration on experimental bacterial prostatitis in rats
Author(s) -
Kaplan Les,
Lee Chung,
Schaeffer Anthony J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
the prostate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.295
H-Index - 123
eISSN - 1097-0045
pISSN - 0270-4137
DOI - 10.1002/pros.2990040608
Subject(s) - prostate , prostatitis , orchiectomy , castration , medicine , escherichia coli , urology , andrology , endocrinology , biology , hormone , biochemistry , cancer , gene
Inoculation of Escherichia coli into the ventral lobe of the rat prostate produced positive bacterial cultures in the expressed fluid of all three lobes of the rat prostate for a prolonged period of time. Orchiectomy at the time of bacterial inoculation significantly shortened the interval of positive bacterial cultures in the prostate expressate.