The Prostate and Aging The prostate is a small walnut sized gland that is located just below the bladder. It surrounds the urethra and makes fluid that helps protect sperm, squeezing this fluid into the urethra during ejaculation. As men age it’s quite common for most to experience some ...
The prostate gland receives a great deal of research interest not because of its physiologic role as a secretory gland for seminal plasma components but rather due to the high incidence of abnormal growth and tumor formation with aging in humans. Currently, prostate cancer is the most common ...
The prostate is a walnut-sized gland located under the bladder and next to the rectum of people assigned male at birth (AMAB). It surrounds the urethra, a tube that transports urine from the bladder and through the penis. The prostate plays an important role in sexual reproduction. It help...
1 Prostate Age Gap (PAG): An MRI surrogate marker of aging for prostate cancer detection Alvaro Fernandez-Quilez 1,2,3,* , Tobias Nordström 3,4 , Fredrik Jäderling 5,6 , Svein Reidar Kjosavik 7 and Martin Eklund 3 1 Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, ...
Prostatitisis inflammation of the prostate gland caused by things like injury or infection. As is the case with BPH, prostate massage appears effective at reducing inflammation.6This can decrease pain in chronic cases and even help antibiotics fight prostate infections. ...
Your prostate is a male reproductive gland. What's good for your prostate is good for the rest of you: reduce or eliminate red meat, salt and alcohol. Eat brightly-colored fruits and vegetables (the redder the better). Why? They're packed with carotenoids, like lycopene. Extracts of saw...
Sales of the sex toys, which are designed specifically to stimulate the walnut-sized gland between the root of the penis and the bladder, are surging — and this exploding interest is being driven in large part by what may seem like a surprising source: straight cis men. ...
This special report should be read by every man 40+ who cares about his prostate health. Share this if you are a woman who has a partner, husband, brother, father or a male friend aged 40+
Objective:To investigate the feasibility of MR diffusion tensor imaging(DTI) in displaying the structural characteristics of the peripheral zone and central zone of prostate gland in aging males.Methods:Routine MR T2WI and DTI of the prostate gland of 22 aging males were performed using a 3.0T MR...
Prostate canceris a common malignancy of males. The normal growth and function of the prostate gland is dependent on androgens, but also members of the TGFβ superfamily. It has been shown that there is loss ofinhibinα subunitexpression in high-gradeprostate cancer(Mellor et al., 1998), and...