Multiple strands of research provide growing evidence that diet, nutrition, and life style play a role in the development and the course of urological diseases. Numerous micronutrients and polyphenols found in soy, green tea, and many fruits and vegetables have been described to impact diseases including erectile dysfunction, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and prostate cancer. However, oftentime...

(1)H MRSI in vivo is increasingly being used to diagnose prostate cancer noninvasively by measurement of the resonance from choline-containing phospholipid metabolites. Although (31) P NMR in vivo or in vitro is potentially an excellent method for probing the phospholipid metabolites prominent in prostate cancer, it has been little used recently. Here, we report an in vitro (31)P NMR comparison...

Abstract Background Prostate cancer can be detected incidentally in patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate for benign prostatic hyperplasia. Therefore, it is very important that specimen evaluated carefully accurate grading and staging. The aim this study was to investigate frequency incidental its relationship with clinicopathological findings. Methods included a total 900...

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Polyamine concentrations were evaluated in normal human prostatic tissue as well as hyperplastic prostate. Normal tissues had high concentrations of putrescine and spermine with intermediate spermidine concentrations, whereas there was a dramatic increase in the spermine concentration in patients with hypertrophy of the prostate. Although not highly significant, spermidine concentrations were e...

1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies (360 MHz) were performed on specimens of benign (n = 66) and malignant (n = 21) human prostate tissue from 50 patients, and the spectral data were subjected to multivariate analysis, specifically linear-discriminant analysis. On the basis of histopathological assessments, an overall classification accuracy of 96.6% was achieved, with a sensitivity of 1...

OBJECTIVES To review the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia in Hong Kong. DESIGN Questionnaire study and review of previous presentations at the Hong Kong Urological Association meetings. SETTING Urology centres in the public sector, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Thirteen public urology centres replied to the questionnaire survey. Thirty-two papers on benign prostatic hyperplasia present...

Background: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common benign tumor in men. The etiology of BPH is still unresolved and multiple systems are likely to be involved. The effects of diabetes on urinary system are a risk factor for BPH. We then assessed the effects of diabetes on the parameters related to BPH, especially weight and volume. Methods: This study was conducted on patients...

OBJECTIVE To detect the expression of the muscarinic receptor (M receptor) in different prostate tissues and analyze the role of its subtype in prostatic oncogenesis. METHODS Thirty-six cases of normal prostate and benign prostatic hyperplasia, and 8 cases of prostatic tumor, were used in this study from the Shandong University, Shandong, China, between 2003-2006. The protein expressions of M...

Using a 0.5 tesla superconducting magnetic system, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies were performed in 42 patients (27 prostatic carcinoma and 15 benign prostatic hyperplasia) and 2 healthy volunteers. Spin echo images were produced in the transverse, coronal and sagittal directions. T1 and T2 relaxation times were calculated from these images. The images of 2 normal prostates showed 2 s...