Deleterious Morphological Changes and Hormonal Profile Induced by Tetracycline on the Male Accessory Organs of Adult Male Wistar Rats

Authors

  • A. O. Adesanya
  • R. T. Ajayi
  • T. Logunleko
  • M. D. Oyegoke
  • O. J. Otulana
  • L. A. J. Shittu medical director/Professor JIREH LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL LLC,

Keywords:

Tetracycline, Testosterone, Testis, Prostate, Seminal vesicle

Abstract

Tetracycline (TET) is a popular broad spectrum antibiotics known to man for treating infections mainly bacterial for many years now. However, due to paucity of knowledge; we aim to study its impact and mechanism on the male reproductive organs of treated Wister rats using histomorphometric and hormonal analysis methods.

Twenty-one adult male Wister rats with average weight of 135g were divided into three groups. Two treated groups received a daily oral dose of TET at 2.0 mg/kg bwt and 4.0mg /kg bwt respectively via gastric gavage, while equal volume of normal saline was administered to the control group for five weeks. The result showed that TET administration caused a significant reduction in the testosterone level, as well as induction of adverse histo-pathologic changes in the testes. However, there was a significant increase (P<0.05) in the weights of the male accessory sex glands-( prostate and seminal vesicles) as compared to the control animals in a dose- dependent manner. Hence, we concluded that TET administration is deleterious on male accessory organs with mechanisms associated with Testosterone imbalance probably at HPT-axis level.

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2016-04-18

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Adesanya, A. O., Ajayi, R. T., Logunleko, T., Oyegoke, M. D., Otulana, O. J., & Shittu, L. A. J. (2016). Deleterious Morphological Changes and Hormonal Profile Induced by Tetracycline on the Male Accessory Organs of Adult Male Wistar Rats. Asian Journal of Applied Sciences, 4(2). Retrieved from https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJAS/article/view/3732

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