Figure 3
From: Harmful effects of carbamazepine on the postnatal development of the rat ventral prostate
Photomicrographs of ventral prostate sections of control and CBZ treated rats at different ages. HE-method. A: Part of ventral prostate section of 43-day old control rat, showing glandular epithelium with tall columnar secretory epithelial cells (Ep), smooth muscle layers (thin arrow) and connective tissue (asterisks). Note the presence of no activated mast cell in the fibromuscular stroma (thick arrow). Bv: blood vessel. Bar: 9 μm. B: Part of ventral prostate section of CBZ43 rat. Note the mast cell in the fibromuscular stroma with visible cytoplasmatic granules (thick arrow). Bar: 9 μm. C: Part of ventral prostate section of a 63-day old control rat, showing detail of the fibromuscular stroma (asterisk) containing mast cell (thick arrow) with no conspicuous cytoplasmatic granules. Bar: 9 μm. D: Ventral prostate section of the CBZ63 rat. Note the various mast cells in process of degranulation (thick arrows) disposed in the fibromuscular stroma (asterisk). Bar: 10 μm. E and F: Ventral prostate sections of C93 and CBZ93 rats. Note the smooth muscle layers (thin arrows) and the connective tissue (asterisks) containing the mast cells with fine and few evident cytoplasmatic granules (head arrows). Bar: 7 μm and 7 μm, respectively.