Slide DMS191 [Prostate, human or monkey, H&E]. Now exam the H&E appearance of the prostate gland. The smooth muscle content of the fibromuscular stroma that characterizes the prostate is not so obvious as in the Masson stained section, but with more careful examination, the smooth muscle component of the stroma is apparent. Corpora amylacea can be seen in the slide of human prostate taken from an older individual, but these concretions are not a distinctive feature in younger prostate or in the section of monkey prostate. Be sure that you can identify prostate even in the absence of the corpora amylacea.