title: Relationship of seminal volume to size and disease of the prostate in the beagle.
abstract: The seminal volume of young adult Beagles was correlated with the size of and disease in their prostates. The ejaculate volume of naturally collected semen increased in a linear manner with prostatic weight in dogs with normal or glandular hyperplastic prostates. This correlation was not observed in the dogs with cystic hyperplasia, in which there was a reduction in volume of 50% in the semen produced for each gram of prostate. There were no significant differences in other seminal characteristics regardless of prostatic size of disease.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004285:Dogs; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology*; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D012661:Semen / Q000502:physiology*