SUZUKI, T., YAMANAKA, H., TAMURA, Y., NAKAJIMA, K., KANATANI, K., KIMURA, M. and OTAKI, N.
Metallothionein of Prostatic Tissues and Fluids in Rats and Humans. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1992,
166 (2), 251-257-We analyzed metallothionein (MT) in rat prostates by gel filtration and radioimmunoassay. The concentration of MT in the prostate, kidney and liver of cadmiuminduced rats was measured. The concentration of MT was also measured in normal prostate, benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer and the prostatic fluids from various prostatic diseases in humans. MT was detected in rat prostates by gel filtration and radioimmunoassay. The concentration of MT (μg/g wet tissue) was 0.3+0.1 (s.D.) in the ventral lobe, 30.4+24.0 in the lateral lobe, 5.2+0.9 in the dorsal lobe, 25.0±6.4 in the kidney and 2.0±1.5 in the liver of the rat control group. Change in MT content in CdCl
2-induced organs increased quantitatively with the dose administered. The concentration of MT (μg/g wet tissue) in human prostate was 99.3±121.8 in the peripheral zone (PZ), 12.0±8.5 in the preprostatic region (PR), 7.3±3.1 in the central zone (CZ), 17.5±15.0 in benign hyperplastic nodules (A) and 4.2±0.5 in cancer tissue (CA). MT concentratiton in PZ was very high and that of CA, low (
p<0.05). MT concentration in prostatic fluids (ng/mg protein) was 11.5±5.7 in normal patients, 3.8±2.3 in acute prostatitis, 6.5±3.7 in chronic prostatitis with pyuria, 39.6±3.9 in chronic prostatitis without pyuria and 16.9±3.0 in benign prostatic hyperplasia. We concluded that MT in the prostate is induced by heavy metals and secreted into prostatic fluid. Possibly, it is a marker of secretory function in the prostate.
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