...Taiji Nishimura; Yasunori Terashima; Tomotaka Hattori; Mitsuhiro Satoh; Kazuhiro Yoshida; Masao Akimoto Relationship between activation of macrophages in prostatic fluid and stage of nonbacterial prostatitis was studied by observing the rate of adherence of leukocytes, percentage of macrophages...

... diseases. Therefore, in our continuing investigation to clarify the significance of leukocytosis and its prolongation in prostatic fluid from prostatitis patients, we investigated whether low levels of IL-1ra versus IL-1β secreted in prostatic fluid were the cause of prolonged prostatitis, especially...