Annulate lamellae observed in human prostatic carcinoma.

Annulate lamellae (AL) were observed in only three out of 40 cases of human prostatic carcinoma, but not in 20 cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia and 11 cases of presumably normal prostatic tissues. AL showed the continuity with the rough endoplasmic reticulum and seemingly the nuclear membrane consisting of lamellar or concentric arrangement of stacked membranes and occasionally annular structures. In addition, annuli were detected in the rough endoplasmic reticulum near the stacked membranes which were devoid of ribosomal attachment.

Virus particles in normal prostate tissues of mice from ten strains, with special reference to type-B virus particles.

Prostate tissues of a total of 61 normal mice from 10 different strains, including high (C3H/Dm, RIII/Dm, and A/Dm) and low (BALB/c/Dm, C3Hf/Bi/Dm, and C3Hf/He/TEX) mammary cancer, and high (AKR/Dm) and low (CBA/J/Cr, SJL/J/Cr, and C57/BL/6/TEX) leukemia strains were examined by electron microscopy for the presence of virus particles. These studies demonstrated that type-B virus particles were present in normal prostate tissues of some old mice from all the three high (C3H/Dm, RIII/Dm, and A/Dm) and one low (BALB/c/Dm) mammary cancer strains. They further demonstrated that varying number of type-C virus particles were present in prostate tissues of some young and old mice, including those from all the 10 strains, especially in a larger number in older mice, and that intracisternal type-A virus particles were observed in all the mice examined.

Histology and ultrastructure of the R-3327 C-F transplantable prostate tumor of Cophenhagen-Fisher rats.

The R-3327 C-F tumor is an adenocarcinoma of the prostate maintained by serial transplantation in male Copenhagen-Fisher hybrid rats. The tumor is histologically different from other tumor sublines derived from the original R-3327 tumor discovered in 1961 in an aged Copenhagen rat. Light and electron microscopy have shown that the R-3327 C-F tumor contains a well organized glandular epithelium with myoepithelial cells and a continuous basement membrane, although epithelial cells were much less differentiated than epithelial cells of either dorsal or lateral normal prostate of the rat.