CHANGES IN THE SEMINAL VESICLE OF ADULT RATS IRRADIATED AND STIMULATED WITH TESTOSTERONE
Eight-month-old rats were irradiated with 1000 r in the suprapubic region and injected intramuscularly 1 hr later with 10 mg testosterone propionate. Histologic changes in seminal vesicle were studied 7 and 15 days later. At 7 days the vesicles of irradiated uninjected rats showed very little cellular modification, except for a few pyknotic nuclei in epithelial and stromal cells. After 15 days the changes were more severe and included separation of epithelial cells from their underlying basement membrane and desquamation and degeneration of these cells. Other cells were relatively normal. In rats treated with testosterone, causing epithelial hyperplasia, the radiation-induced injury to epithelial cells was more severe 7 days after irradiation, but after 15 days, testosterone appeared to have stimulated recovery of the epithelium and a more normal vesicular structure was evident. (H.H.D.)
- Research Organization:
- Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale dell'Universita, Florence
- NSA Number:
- NSA-17-002838
- OSTI ID:
- 4767402
- Journal Information:
- Boll. Soc. Ital. Biol. Sper., Journal Name: Boll. Soc. Ital. Biol. Sper. Vol. Vol: 37
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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