Intracellular distribution of calcium and zinc in normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic human prostate: X-ray microanalysis of freeze-dried cryosections.

The Prostate
K E TvedtO A Haugen

Abstract

X-ray microanalysis has been performed on freeze-dried cryosections of normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic human prostates. Needle biopsies from prostates suspected to be malignant were collected from ten patients. Seven of these patients had fully developed nodular hyperplasia, whereas the remaining three specimens were histologically classified as moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas. Prostates with normal light microscopic appearance were obtained from two brain-dead kidney donors. The concentration of calcium in secretory vesicles was found to be several orders of magnitude higher than the concentration of magnesium and zinc in all of the glands studied, which is consistent with calcium being the major cation secreted by the prostatic acinar cells. Some elderly prostates and neoplastic prostates revealed even lower mean zinc:calcium ratios in secretory vesicles. Even though both elements varied considerably, the wide variation of the zinc:calcium ratios was due mainly to variations in the concentration of zinc. Large, electron-dense bodies occasionally were found in the cytoplasm of prostatic acinar cells. These bodies contained high concentrations of sulphur which by far was the dominating element.

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