Prolactin promotes a partial recovery from the atrophy of both male and female gerbil prostates caused by castration

Table 1 Incidence and Multiplicity of inflammations and morphological alterations observed in prostates

		Co	P3	P30	Ca	CaP3	CaP30
		Inflammation
Incidence (%)	♀	12.5	25.0	25.0	0	0	0
Incidence (%)	♂	25.0	50.0	25.0	0	13.0	0
Multiplicity (mean ± SD)	♀	0.037 ± 0.1	0.061 ± 0.1	0.082 ± 0.1	0	0	0
Multiplicity (mean ± SD)	♂	0.227 ± 0.4	0.435 ± 0.6	0.220 ± 0.4	0	0.041 ± 0.1	0
		Morphological alterations
Incidence (%)	♀	62.5	75.0	12.5	0	62.5	0
Incidence (%)	♂	12.5	50.0	12.5	0	0	0
Multiplicity (mean ± SD)	♀	0.310 ± 0.3^a,b	1.333 ± 1.7^a	0.082 ± 0.2^a,b	0^b	0.405 ± 0.5^a,b	0^b
Multiplicity (mean ± SD)	♂	0.020 ± 0.05^a,b	1.040 ± 1.8^a	0.020 ± 0.05^a,b	0^b	0^b	0^b

Different letters represent statistically significant differences between the experimental groups, p ≤ 0.05

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