Prostate gland. pptx human anatomy human anatomy

1. Prostate gland

2. Prostate gland
• Prostetic urethra
– Psuedostratified epithelium
• Glandular acini vary in size
• Lumina of acini normally wide and irregular
– Protrusion of epithelium-covered connective tissue folds
– Proteinaceous secretions sometimes prostatic concretions.
– Glandular epithelium simple-columnar or psuedot
Fibromuscular stroma
– Characteristic feature of prostate gland
» SM bundles and CT fibers blend together in the stroma
throughout the gland.
» ratified, cells lightly stain, some region squamous or
cuboidal.

3. Histology of prostate gland

6. Bulbourethral gland:
⚫Compound tubulo-alveolar gland in bull, stallion and
ram, compound tubular gland in boar, cat and bucks
and absent in dogs.
⚫Glandular epithelium is simple columnar with
occasional basal cells.
⚫The collecting duct has simple cuboidal to columnar
epithelium.
⚫The intraglandular duct has pseudostratified columnar
epithelium.
⚫The bulbourethral duct is lined by transitional
epithelium.
⚫The gland is covered by fibro elastic capsule containing
striated muscle.

7. Histology of the Bulbourethral gland

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