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Hormone replacement has no effect on the bladders of ovariectomized rats.

Women's Health Weekly

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2003 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hormone replacement has no effect on the bladders of ovariectomized rats.

"The authors quantified the collagen and elastic fibers in the bladder wall of ovariectomized rats with and without estradiol replacement. This study was conducted on 60 3-month-old Wistar rats," investigators in Brazil reported.

"Group 1 remained intact; group 2 underwent bilateral ovariectomy and were sacrificed after 30 days; group 3 were sham operated and sacrificed after 30 days; group 4 had a bilateral ovariectomy and after 30 days were started on subcutaneous injections of 17beta-estradiol (10 microgram/kg body weight) for 90 days; group 5 were sham operated and after 30 days were on started subcutaneous sesame oil replacement (0.2 ml/day) for 90 days; group 6 had a bilateral ovariectomy and after 30 days were started on subcutaneous sesame oil replacement (0.2 ml/day) for 90 days," said M. Dambros and colleagues, Estadual Campinas University.

"Sirius red and Weigert's resorcin-fuchsin were used to stain collagen and elastic fibers on paraffin-embedded rat bladder sections. The M-42 grid system was used to quantitatively analyze the fibers. Ovariectomy had no ...

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