BIOCHEMICAL STUDY OF LIPIDS IN THE PROSTATE GLAND
A Study of the Cholesterol and Phospholipids Concentration in Human Prostatic Fluid in Relation to Age and Prostatic Disease
1983 Volume 74 Issue 2 Pages 179-187
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1983 Volume 74 Issue 2 Pages 179-187
The concentrations of total cholesterol and phospholipids in human prostatic fluid were determined by enzymatic method.
The patients ranged in age from 15 to 79. Total cholesterol concentration in prostatic fluid of 126 males varied between 15.9 and 350.3mg/dl with a mean value and standard error of 130.6±5.9mg/dl. Total cholesterol concentration in prostatic fluid increased in the twenties, reached to its peak in the thirties and forties, and decreased in those over their sixties. There was a tendency that total cholesterol concentration in prostatic fluid in patients with prostatitis was less than that in cases without genitourinary tract infection, particularly in cases in their twenties through forties. Regarding the age group from fifty to seventy, there was no significant difference between total cholesterol concentration in prostatic fluid in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and that in cases without benign prostatic hyperplasia. These results suggest that aging and infection inhibit total cholesterol concentration in prostatic fluid.
Phospholipids concentration in prostatic fluid of 112 males ranged from 31.6 to 3181mg/dl with a mean value and standard error of 276.1±49.9mg/dl. Phospholipids concentration in prostatic fluid was the highest in the sixties.
