This study evaluated the effect of gossypol acetate, a potential antifertility compound, on semen quality and testicular histopathology boars. Six boars were allotted into two experimental groups. Half animals fed diet that was supplemented with 2 mg acetate per kg body weight day for 9 weeks, control received acetate-free feed. During period, collected weekly from each boar parameters r...

background: in traditional medicine zingiber officinale used to regulate female menstural cycle and treat male infertility. recent studies have suggested the possible role of ginger extract in improving the testicular damage of busulfan. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of zingiber officinale on the sperm parameters, testosterone level and the volume of the testes an...

Curcumin as an antioxidant plays important role in reducing lead toxicity. This research aimed to demonstrate the potential of curcumin maintaining epithelial thickness and diameter seminiferous tubules mice treated with acetate. Thirty BALB/c (Mus musculus) were divided into 5 groups. Group N was negative control group no treatment. P positive group, which given 0.075 g/kgBW acetate once a day...

a 21 year old boy was first seen because of gynecomastia and primary hypogonadisme. a biopsy specimen from the testes revealed hyalinization of the seminiferous tubules with spermatogenic arrest, and tissue studies showed positive sex chromatin and the karyotype was 47 (xyy).