title: Effect of castration on experimental bacterial prostatitis in rats.
abstract: Inoculation of Escherichia coli into the ventral lobe of the rat prostate produced positive bacterial cultures in the expressed fluid of all three lobes of the rat prostate for a prolonged period of time. Orchiectomy at the time of bacterial inoculation significantly shortened the interval of positive bacterial cultures in the prostate expressate.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D002369:Castration; D008297:Male; D011467:Prostate / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains