Table 2.

Carotenoid concentrations in androgen sensitive tissues of rats fed a 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d and supplemented with a single oral dose of PE or PF on d 31.¹

Carotenoid	Tomato powder-fed ²	PE-24hr ³	PF-24hr ⁴
	Testes (nmol/g)
Phytoene	0.10 ± 0.02 ^a	0.16 ± 0.01 ^b	0.08 ± 0.01 ^a
Phytofluene	0.18 ± 0.01 ^a	0.16 ± 0.01 ^a	0.23 ± 0.01 ^b
Lycopene	0.19 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01
ζ-Carotene	0.06 ± 0.00	0.06 ± 0.00	0.07 ± 0.00
	Dorsolateral plus anterior prostate (nmol/g)
Phytoene	0.05	0.08	0.04
Phytofluene	0.08	0.07	0.14
Lycopene	0.22	0.22	0.21
ζ-Carotene	0.05	0.04	0.04
	Ventral prostate (nmol/g)
Phytoene	0.05	0.10	0.06
Phytofluene	0.11	0.11	0.16
Lycopene	0.22	0.25	0.22
ζ-Carotene	0.05	0.06	0.05
	Seminal vesicles (nmol/g)
Phytoene	0.06	0.07	0.06
Phytofluene	0.06	0.05	0.10
Lycopene	0.10	0.10	0.11
ζ-Carotene	0.04	0.03	0.03

Values are means ± SEM; testes n = 8; ventral prostate, dorsolateral plus anterior prostate, and seminal vesicles, n = 1.

Tomato powder-fed = rats pre-fed 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d

PE-24hr = rats, pre-fed 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d, orally gavaged with 2.7 mg PE and euthanized 24 hr post-dose

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PF-24hr = rats, pre-fed 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d, orally gavaged with 2.7 mg PF and euthanized 24 hr post-dose

^a,b

Means within a row with a different letter are statistically different (P < 0.05) determined by one-way ANOVA and post-hoc Tukey's studentized range test.