Effect of Phitofert® on testicular function of vasectomized mature mice

Yousif, Muna Hasan; Al-Dujal, Saad Salh; Arrak, Jawad Kadhim

	Effect of Phitofert® on testicular function of vasectomized mature mice
Al-Anbar Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Volume 11, Issue 2, August 2018, Pages 9-16 PDF (405.47 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
Authors
Muna Hasan Yousif¹; Saad Salh Al-Dujal²; Jawad Kadhim Arrak¹
¹Department of Physiology and Pharmacology- College of Veterinary Medicine/ University of Baghdad
²Biotechnology Research Center- University of Al-Nahrain
Abstract
This study was designed to evaluate the role of Phitofert® in the improvement of testes function and attenuating DNA fragmentation in vasectomized and healthy adult mice. Twenty four adult male breed such Albino mice were randomly and equally divided into four groups (G1, G2, G3 and G4). Mice were treated for 35days as follows: the G1 mice were non-vasectomized and given DW and served as controls, mice in G2 were non-vasectomized and given Phitofert® daily with a dose of 0.035mg/kg BW, mice in G3 were vasectomized without treatment while the mice in G4 were vasectomized and given same dose of Phitofert®. At the end of the experiment, fasting blood samples were collected by cardiac puncture for measuring LH and FSH hormones concentrations and section from testes were taken tomeasure the number of Leydig cells and diameter of semniferous tubules. The results of current data showed significant increase of serum LH and FSH concentrations in G2 healthy treated group as compared with control and other groups. Also, the treatment of G4 vasectomized mice with Phitofert® caused significant increase in serum concentration of the above hormones as compared with G3 vasectomized non-treated. The study showed that DNA fragmentation that resulted from the G2 healthy treated mice were lower than that obtained from the control group and other vasectomized mice (G3, G4). The diameters of the seminiferous tubules and the numbers of Leydig cells showed significant increase in healthy and vasectomized treated group (G1, G4) as compared with G3 vasectomized non-treated group. It was concluded that healthy and vasectomized treated of adult male mice with Phitofert® lead to clear improvement of level of reproductive hormones.
Keywords
Phitofert®; testicular function; mice

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