A Cox regression multivariate analysis was done to determine the clinical and pathological indicators that predict for prostate specific antigen (PSA) failure in 347 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer between 1989 and 1993. In the patient subgroups (PSA less than 20 ng./ml. and biopsy Gleason sum 5 to 7 or PSA more than 10 to 20 ng./ml. and bio...

A survey aimed at exploring the endoparasitic acephaline gregarine diversity in South-western Bengal, detected a new species of the genus Monocystis Stein, 1848, that resides in the seminal vesicles of the earthworm, Apporectodea trapezoides Duges collected in the district of Bankura from alluvial soil. Monocystis apporectodae sp. nov. is a ribbon-like organism with one or more prominent constr...

OBJECTIVES Our aim is to design a predictive model of seminal vesicle involvement. using clinical data. METHODS We studied 1128 patients with clinically localized adenocarcinoma treated by radical prostatectomy (127 were pT3b). We identified (logistic regression) clinical variables related with pT3b. With the multivariate study influential variables a seminal vesicle involvement risk model is...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe treatment patterns of radiotherapy (RT) for prostate cancer in Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire about radiation treatment technique and principles in 2013 was sent to 83 radiation oncologists and data from 57 hospitals were collected analyzed to find patterns of RT for prostate cancer patients in Korea. RESULTS The number of pati...

Bovine seminal ribonuclease, the only dimeric ribonuclease described thus far, is found to exist in two different quaternary structure forms. In one, the N-terminal segment (residues 1-17) of each subunit is interchanged with the remaining segment of the other subunit, whereas in the second, such interchange does not occur. Functionally, they differ in that the catalytic activity of the form wi...

Sulfhydryl compounds have been demonstrated in various regions of the male reproductive tract: glutathione has been found in spermatozoa (1,2) and ergothioneine and possibly other sulfhydryl compounds originate in the prostate and seminal vesicles and are known t.o be influential constituents of seminal fluid (3). Little is known, however, about the identity or function of sulfur compounds in t...

The potent immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory and procoagulant properties of protein no. 4 secreted from the rat seminal vesicle epithelium (SV-IV) have previously been found to be modulated by a supramolecular monomer-trimer equilibrium. More structural details that integrate experimental data into a predictive framework have recently been reported. Unfortunately, homology modelling and fold-...

Geoplana josefi sp. nov. of South Brazil is described herein. The species shows etary polymorphism. Neither youngs nor adults show the characteristic colour pattern of the mature worms. The species has a multilayered lining in the female atrium. The allopatric G. trigueira, which does not have such a lining, is similar externally and internally with adults of G. josefi, its seminal vesicle, how...

The oxytocic activity of the jugular blood plasma of bulls before and after copulation, ejaculation into an artificial vagina, massage of the seminal vesicles and ampullae and stimulation with an electroejaculator increased from below 0\m=.\01\g=m\U/mlto a peak level varying from 2 to 1000 \g=m\U/ml4 to 6 min after ejaculation or 6 to 9 min after the start of electrical or manual stimulation.

Serum corticosterone concentrations were measured to see if there was any correlation between adrenal activity and reproductive inhibition. Males and females from two growing and one stable (asymptotic) population had significantly smaller reproductive organs (seminal vesicles, testes, uteri, ovaries) than controls. The weights of the adrenal glands of population mice were smaller, often signif...