High fat diet effect on prostate: ventral prostate lobe
Summary:
Analysis of ventral prostate lobe from 8-week-old C57BL/6J males fed a high fat diet for 12 weeks. High fat diets are a risk factor for prostate cancer. Results provide insight into molecular mechanisms by which high fat diet can promote carcinogenesis.
Sekine Y, Osei-Hwedieh D, Matsuda K, Raghavachari N et al. High fat diet reduces the expression of glutathione peroxidase 3 in mouse prostate. Prostate 2011 Oct 1;71(14):1499-509. PMID: 21374652
