High-Resolution Protein Patterns of Human Expressed Prostatic Secretion: A New Tool for the Diagnosis of Prostatitis
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Archives of Andrology
- Vol. 8 (2), 97-105
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01485018208987025
Abstract
Expressed prostatic secretions (EPS) obtained from 62 infertile and urological patients were analyzed for their protein content by sodium dodecylsulfate electrophoresis and isoelectrofocusing. Independent cytological and bacteriological screening on the same EPS samples was carried out to detect prostatic inflammation. EPS from both urological and infertile patients without inflammation had simple and characteristic protein patterns. Important qualitative and quantitative differences in the protein composition of EPS from patients with severe dyspermia or prostatic inflammation were found. The comparison of EPS protein patterns with those of seminal plasma obtained from the same patients led to the detection of a characteristic group of low-MW bands that were not of prostatic origin.Keywords
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