Figure 5. Effects of androgen deprivation on trabecular smooth muscle and connective tissue content in the corpus cavernosum. Corpus cavernosum tissue from the various treatment groups was fixed, paraffin-embedded, sectioned (6 µm), and subjected to Masson trichrome staining procedure. Representative sections from the following groups of animals are shown: intact control (A), orchiectomy at 2 weeks (B), and leuprolide acetate at 8 weeks (C). All fields are at 100x magnification.