Effects of Vitamin D Restricted Diet Administered during Perinatal and Postnatal Periods on the Penis of Wistar Rats

Figure 2

Photomicrographs of cell proliferation and elastic fibers in corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum of offspring penis at 4 months of age. (a) Corpus cavernosum; arrows show that the cell proliferation was greater in VitD/VitD. PCNA immunostaining, ×400. Arrows indicate a reduction of elastic fibers in (b) corpus cavernosum and (c) tunica albuginea of corpus spongiosum in VitD/VitD. Weigert’s resorcin-fuchsin staining, ×1000.

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