Ultrastructural study of the lateral lobe of the prostate of Wistar rats submitted to experimental chronic alcohol ingestion
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Alcoholism is considered today one of the most serious social and medical problems. Different investigators have demonstrated that chronic exposure to alcohol causes morphological and physiological changes in the testes and in the accessory sex glands, in the prostate in particular. In the present study, experimental rats were divided into groups receiving sugar cane brandy diluted to 30° G.L. (30%, v/v) and Purina ration ad libitum for 60, 120, 180, 240 and 300 days, respectively. At the end of each period the animals were sacrificed and the lateral lobe of the prostate was collected for histological examination. The results showed atrophied epithelium, accumulation of lipidic droplets and rupture of the microvilli that line the cell surface facing the lumen of cells of the secretory epithelium of the lateral lobe of the prostate.
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Alcohol, Lateral lobe, Ultrastructure, alcohol, alcoholism, animal, disease model, drug effect, electron microscopy, epithelium, lipid metabolism, male, male genital system, metabolism, microvillus, pathology, prostate, rat, time, ultrastructure, Wistar rat, Alcoholism, Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Epithelium, Ethanol, Genitalia, Male, Lipid Metabolism, Male, Microscopy, Electron, Microvilli, Prostate, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Time Factors
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Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology, v. 30, n. 1, p. 77-84, 1998.
