Monday, May 6, 1996 Poster Session 27 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

BPH: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND CLINICAL MARKERS Room 207 B-C, Orange County Convention Center

Moderators: John N. Kabalin, Palo Alto, CA Johnny B. Roy, Oklahoma City, OK

I:00 pm--Overview 2:30 pm--Discussion

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Animal model for multichannel telemetry studies of dynamic bladder outlet obstruction.

Mostafa A. Sakr, Gamal M. Ghoniem and Mike W. Aertker, Covington and New Orleans, LA (Presented by Dr. Sakr).

Heparin-binding EGF family in prostate. Yoshitatsu Fukabori, Katsuya Nakano, Susumu Kurita, Yutaka Takezawa, Nobuaki Shimizu, Yoshimi Tamura, Hidetoshi Yamanaka, Maebshi, Japan; Mikio Kan and Wallace L. McKeehan, Houston, Texas (Presented by Dr. Fukabori).

Inflammation aggressivity in benign prostatic hyper- plasia: correlation with prostate-specific antigen density.

Jacques Irani, Pierre Levillain, Jean-Michel Goujon, Eric Gremmo, Bertrand Dor~ and Jacques Aubert, Poitiers, France (Presented by Dr. Irani).

Repeated pressure/flow study in the evaluation of the bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) in BPH.

T. Tammela, W. Sch~fer, D. Barrett, H. Hedlund, T. Hald, J. Nordling, H. Rollema, R. Bruskewitz, R. Kirby, R Abrams, R. Miller, M-R Malice, J-T. Andersen, M. Ferriera and M. Bach, Tampere, Finland (Presented by Dr. Tammela).

High variability change in prostate volume by transrec- tal ultrasound over time within untreated men.

Thomas Rhodes, Cynthia J. Girman, Steven J. Jacobsen, Harry A. Guess, Joseph E. Oesterling and Michael M. Lieber, Rochester, MN and Ann Arbor, MI (Presented by Dr. Girman).

Reduced serum testosterone levels after radical retro- pubic prostatectomy (RRP).

Gerald L. Andriole, Ganesh S. Rao, Mutsushi Kawakita, Debbie S. Smith and David K. Ornstein, St. Louis, MO (Presented by Dr. Andriole).

~l-adrenergic receptor subtypes and activation of growth-related protein kinases.

Zhuo Wei Hu, Xiao-you Shi, Richard Z. Lin and Brian B. Hoffman, Palo Alto, CA (Presented by Dr. Hu).

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Association between cigarette smoking and prosta- tism in a Japanese community.

Rosebud O. Roberts, Taiji Tsukamoto, Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Thomas Rhodes, Naoya Masumori, Hirotsugu Miyake, Cynthia J. Girman, Steven J. Jacobsen and Michael M. Lieber, Rochester, MN (Presented by Dr. Roberts).

Expression of alpha 1-adrenergic receptors in human prostatic tissue and in smooth muscle cell cultures. Effects of receptor agonists and antagonists.

Ju Zhang, Alfred Hobisch, Georg Bartsch and Helmut Klocker, Innsbruck, Austria; Michael G. Wyllie, New York, NY (Presented by Dr. Zhang).

A mouse model for human BPH and its use to test the effects of doxazosin in vivo.

Guang Yang, Terry L. Timme, Sang Hee Park, Xiuyin Wu, Amy Liu and Timothy C. Thompson, Houston, TX (Presented by Dr. Yang).

Androgen-induced norepinephrine release is coupled to protein kinase C (PKC) and post-natal growth and differentiation of male accessory sex organ smooth muscle.

Anne Johnson, Virgilio Centenera, Dennis Cole, Julie Kim, John Durham, Albert Azzaro, Jeffrey Fedan and Michael Mawhinney, Morgantown, WV (Presented by Dr. Centenera).

Immunocytochemical localization of 5(~-reductase type 2 in the human prostate.

Tadayuki Miyamoto, Yoshiteru Sumiyoshi, Susumu Kagawa, Hiromichi Yokoi, Mika Nihira and Yoshihiro Tsuruo, Kazunori Ishimura, Tokushima and Matsuyama, Japan (Presented by Dr. Miyamoto).

Response of human benign prostatic stromal and epithelial cells to a new 5cx-reductase inhibitor, epristeride.

Emma J. Robinson, Anne T. Collins and David E. Neal, New Castle upon Tyne, UK (Presented by Dr. Robinson).

Mast cell induced smooth muscle contraction in the prostate.

Timothy L. Ratliff, Ganesh S. Rao, Peter A. Humphrey and Gerald L. Andriole, St Louis, MO (Presented by Dr. Rao).

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Sam-Young Moon and ]in-Han Yoon, Pusan, Korea; Woo-Chul Moon, Kyeng-Keun Seo and Young-Jin Ki, Seoul, Korea (Presented by Dr. Moon).

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Localization of endothelin receptors A and B in normal human prostate and BPH.

T. Prayer Galetti, G.P. Rossi, A. Belloni, G.G. Nussdorfer, A.C. Pessina, F. Zattoni and W. Battanello e F. Pagano, Padova, Italy (Presented by Dr. Galetti).

The endothelin axis and prostatic hyperplasia. Paul Walden, Mike Ittmann and Herbert Lepor, New York, NY (Presented by Dr. Walden).

Change of serum alpha 1-antichymotrypsin (ACT)- prostate specific antigen (PSA) complex level and uncomplexed PSA level with advancing age.

Takayoshi Demura, Nobuo Shinohara, Motoyoshi Tanaka, Nobuyasu Enami, Katsuya Nonomura and Tomohiko Koyanagi, Sapporo, Japan (Presented by Dr. Demura).

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Association of smoking with prostatism-like urinary symptoms: a populatlon-based study.

Juha E. Koskim~ki, Matti Hakama and Teuvo L.J. Tammela, Tampere, Finland (Presented by Dr. Koskimaki).

Increased expression ofinterferon-y in benign prosta- tic hyperplasia.

Georg E. Steiner, Birgit Knerer, Karl Dorfinger, Gero Kramer and Michael Marberger, Vienna, Austria (Presented by Dr. Steiner).

Effects of exogenous testosterone on prostate vol- ume, serum total and free prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels and semen PSA levels in healthy young men.

Christopher S. Cooper, John H. Maclndoe, Paul ]. Perry, William R. Yates, Amy E. T. Sparks, Richard D. Williams, Iowa City, IA (Presented by Dr. Cooper). Please refer to page 710A to view this abstract.

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