scholarly journals Effect of Astaxanthin, Vitamin E, and Vitamin C in Combination with Calorie Restriction on Sperm Quality and Quantity in Male Rats

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliasghar Vahidinia ◽  
Ali Reza Rahbar ◽  
Mohammad Mehdi Shakoori Mahmoodabadi
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Calorie Restriction ◽  
Sperm Quality ◽  
Male Rats

Vitamin E ameliorates disturbances in testosterone pathway and sperm quality of male rats induced by the glycosides vicine and convicine of Vicia faba

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled M.M. Koriem ◽  
Mahmoud S.S. Arbid
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Sperm Quality ◽  
Treated Group ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Paraffin Oil ◽  
Male Genital

Purpose This paper aims to design to evaluate the protective effect of vitamin E to ameliorate the disturbances in testosterone pathway and sperm quality of male rats induced by the glycosides vicine (V) and convicine (C) of Vicia faba. Design/methodology/approach Forty male albino rats were divided into five equal groups; control, paraffin oil, V (400 mg/kg) C (150 mg/kg)-treated group, vitamin E (100 mg/kg) + VC-treated group, and vitamin E (200 mg/kg) + VC-treated groups which injected intraperioneally (IP) with 0.5-ml saline, 0.5-ml paraffin oil,V (400 mg/kg) and C (150 mg/kg) of Vicia faba, vitamin E (100 mg/kg) + VC-treated groups, and Vitamin E(200 mg/kg) + VC-treated groups, respectively. Blood and testicular tissue were obtained after one month of the study. The male genital organs were calculated. Testosterone (Ts), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-SO4), sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG),?-glutamyl transpeptidase (?-GT), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), 3ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3ßHSD), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), spermatozoa concentration, percent of mortality and abnormal sperms were evaluated. Findings The VC-treated group showed significant decrease (p < 0.01) in Ts, DHEA-SO4, G6PD, spermatozoa number and mortality percent, as well as, the male genital organs (testes, epidydemis, seminal vesicle, prostate and vasa deferentia) while significant increase (p < 0.01) was found in LH, FSH, SHBG, LDH, ?-GT, sperms monoclonal Ki-67, and abnormal spermatocytes levels compared with control group. Vitamin E co-injection with VC-treated group returned all these parameters to the normal values. The higher dose of vitamin E (200 mg/kg) was more effect than the lower dose (100 mg/kg). Originality/value Vicia faba contains V and C glycosides. The V and C glycosides in Vicia faba are hydrolyzed by intestinal microflora to aglycones divicine and isouramil, respectively. Divicine and isouramil are highly reactive compounds generating free radicals where divicine and isouramil are the main factors of favism. The V and C glycosides induced disturbances in testosterone pathway and sperm quality of male rats and vitamin E ameliorates these disturbances.

Effects of Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and Selenium on Gastric Fundus in Cadmium Toxicity in Male Rats

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sema Bolkent ◽  
Ozlem Sacan ◽  
Refiye Yanardag ◽  
Sehnaz Bolkent
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Total Lipid ◽  
Cadmium Toxicity ◽  
Gastric Fundus ◽  
Degenerative Changes ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Surface Epithelium ◽  
Sodium Selenate ◽  
Lipid Levels

Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic metal. It has an indirect role in the generation of various free radicals. Antioxidants such as vitamin E, vitamin C, and selenium are important for preventing the damage caused by reactive oxygen species. This study was undertaken to examine the effect of acute cadmium and/or antioxidants on serum lipid metabolism, tissue glutathione, and lipid peroxidation (LPO) levels, and ghrelin and metallothionein production in the gastric fundus mucosa of rats. Cd (2 mg/kg/day CdCl2) was administered to rats for 8 days, intraperitoneally. Vitamin E (250 mg/kg/day) + vitamin C (250 mg/kg/day) + sodium selenate (0.25 mg/kg/day) were administered to rats orally at the same time. The animals were treated by antioxidants 1 h prior to treatment with Cd every day. Gastric tissue homogenates were used for protein and glutathione and LPO levels. Phospholipid and total lipid levels were determined in serum. Gastric fundus sections examined for histopathological changes and by immunohistochemistry for expression of ghrelin and metallothionein. In the group treated with Cd, degenerative changes such as discontinuity in the surface epithelium were observed. The degenerative changes induced by Cd were decreased in the group given vitamin E + vitamin C + selenium. There was no significant change in ghrelin- and metallothionein-immunoreactive cells in fundus mucosa. Stomach glutathione levels insignificantly decreased in the Cd groups, but in the Cd group given antioxidant, stomach glutathione levels were significantly increased. Serum phospholipid and total lipid levels were significantly increased in the Cd groups. On the other hand, treatment with antioxidants reversed these effects. These results indicate that antioxidants partly prevent the toxicity of Cd in rat gastric fundus.

Estrogen administration, postexercise tissue oxidative stress and vitamin C status in male rats

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 952-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M Tiidus ◽  
Eric Bombardier ◽  
Nick Hidiroglou ◽  
Rene Madere
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Superoxide Dismutase ◽  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Glutathione Peroxidase ◽  
Antioxidant Status ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Glutathione Status ◽  
Estrogen Administration ◽  
Tissue Vitamin

Estrogen can putatively act as an antioxidant and protect tissues from exercise-induced oxidative stress. To test the in vivo efficacy of estrogen, the effects of 2 weeks of daily estrogen (40 µg·kg-1 body weight beta-estradiol 3-benzoate) injection on indices of immediate postexercise oxidative stress and antioxidant status were determined in adult male rats, with and without 8 weeks of prior dietary vitamin E deprivation. The treadmill running protocol (60 min at 21 m·min-1, 12% grade) induced significant oxidative stress as indicated by muscle glutathione status. Estrogen administration had little effect on postexercise tissue glutathione status, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activity, and vitamin E levels. Estrogen administration induced significant reductions in muscle, liver, and heart vitamin C concentrations following exercise, as well as in unexercised male rats. Tissue vitamin C loss was not directly mediated through liver glycogen or glutathione status. Thus, estrogen administration generally did not appear to influence postexercise tissue indices of oxidative stress or antioxidant status and may have contributed to a decline in overall antioxidant protection by inducing losses in tissue vitamin C content.Key words: glutathione, vitamin E, muscle, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase.

scholarly journals Study the Effect of Vitamins (C and E) on Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants Changes Induced by VCM in Male Rats

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 430-434
Author(s):  
Shaymaa J. Shamran ◽  
Haider S. Jaffat
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Protective Effects ◽  
Vancomycin Group ◽  
Animal House ◽  
Antioxidant Effects ◽  
Oxidative Effect

The current study was designed to determine the antioxidant effects of vitamin C and vitamin E against oxidative stress induced by vancomycin in some antioxidants changes in the male rats. The study was conducted in the animal house of the Faculty of Science/University of Kufa for the period from April, 2018 to May, 2018 on 119 animals of male rats aged 2.5–3 months and the weight of 150-200 gm. Two experiments designed in this study addressed the first and two experiments to study the oxidative effect of vancomycin in addition to the protective effects of vitamin C and vitamin E to reduce these effects in the treatment of animals for one week and three weeks with vancomycin and vancomycin plus vitamins. The results indicated a significant increase (p less than 0.05) in the MDA, CAT, and significant decrease (p less than 0.05) in SOD, and GPX. In the animals treated with vancomycin 40,60 mg/kg only compared to the control group for the two periods of administration at the same time occur a significant decrease(p less than 0.05) in the MDA, CAT and a significant increase (p less than 0.05) in the SOD and GPX after treated animals with vancomycin 40,60 mg/kg with vitamin C and vitamin E for a period of one and three weeks compared with vancomycin group.

The effects of different levels of vitamin E and vitamin C in modified Beltsville extender on rooster post-thawed sperm quality

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Reza Amini ◽  
Hamid Kohram ◽  
Ahmad Zare Shahaneh ◽  
Mahdi Zhandi ◽  
Hossein Sharideh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Sperm Quality ◽  
Different Levels

scholarly journals Effect of vitamin C on testosterone level, sperm count and sperm morphology in gentamicin-induced Wistar rats

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iis Rahayu ◽  
Elly Usman ◽  
Mohamad Reza
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin C ◽  
Wistar Rats ◽  
Sperm Morphology ◽  
Sperm Quality ◽  
Sperm Count ◽  
Negative Control ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Testicular Cells

Background: Gentamicin is an aminoglycoside-class antibiotic that can lead to an increase in ROS and decrease antioxidant reserves that cause destruction of testicular cells that are known to inhibit cell division in testicular germ cells and protein synthesis in the testes as well as affect the production of testosterone that affects the quality of spermatogenesis. Vitamin C as an antioxidant can counteract ROS so that testicular cells can be repaired.Methods: This study was an experimental research with post tests only control group design on 25 male rats, 2-3 aged months, weight 160-240 g. Animals were divided into 5 groups. Negative control group was placed in cage without treatment, positive control given induced gentamicin 5mg/kgbb for the first 10 days, and 3 treatment given induced gentamicin 5mg/kgbb for the first 10 days and at days 11-51 were given vitamin C at a dose of 1.6mg; 2.25mg; 4.5mg. On 52 day, all of wistar rats perform terminated for analyzed the testosterone levels were by ELISA, sperm count was calculated with then haemocytometer observed with digital microscope, morphology of spermatozoa was analyzed by eosin staining and was observed with digital microscope.Results: Results of this study showed that the average of testosteron serum on control negatif group of 3,82ng/ml, control positif 3.73ng/ml, treatment 1 is 9.52ng/ml, treatment 2 is 8.29ng/ml, and traetment 3 is 2.28ng/ml. Sperm count on control negatif 41.68 million/ml, control positif 21.06million/ml, treatment 1 is 52.92 million/ml, treatment 2 is 57.12million/ml, treatment 3 is 80.88 million/ml and sperm morphology on control negative  74.00%, control positif 46.96%, treatment 1 is 58.82%, treatment 2 is 68.68%, and treatment 3 is 78.72%.Conclusions: It is concluded that vitamin C has significant effect on increasing testosteron level and sperm quality in gentamicin-induced wistar rats.

scholarly journals Modulatory activity of antioxidants against the toxicity of Rifampicin in vivo

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olufunsho Awodele ◽  
Alade Akintonwa ◽  
Vincent O. Osunkalu ◽  
Herbert A.B. Coker
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin E ◽  
Liver Function ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Histopathological Examination ◽  
Sperm Quality ◽  
Clinical Chemistry ◽  
Treated Group ◽  
World Health ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
Therapeutic Doses

The World Health Organization (WHO) has shown concern about the burden of tuberculosis in the developing countries. Even though rifampicin is an effective drug in the management of tuberculosis, it has been documented to have some toxic effects in humans. Therefore, this study intends to investigate the modulatory effect of vitamins C and E on the hepatotoxicity, sperm quality and brain toxicity of Rifampicin. Forty Wistar albino rats were used, 10 animals per group. Group 1 animals received 0.3 mL of distilled water, the Group 2 animals received the therapeutic dose of rifampicin, Group 3 animals received therapeutic doses of rifampicin plus vitamin E, while Group 4 received therapeutic doses of rifampicin and vitamin C. The administration was performed orally during three months; the animals were sacrificed by cervical dislocation at the end of that period. Blood samples were collected and liver function and lipid profile was analyzed using fully automated clinical chemistry device. The liver, brain and reproductive organs underwent histopathological examination. Sperm samples were collected from the epididymis to achieve count and motility and morphological analysis. Results showed rifampicin alone to raise (p < 0.05) liver function enzymes (Aspartate amino transferase [AST], Serum alanine amino transferase [ALT] and Total Bilirubin) when compared with controls. While the vitamin E treated group showed remarkable protection, the vitamin C treated group showed questionable protection against the rifampicin induced liver damage. Sperm count results showed an important (p < 0.05) increase in the sperm quality in vitamin E and C treated groups. However, the vitamin E plus Rifampicin treated group showed increased lipid peroxidation. The histopathological findings revealed structural damages by rifampicin in liver, brain and epididymis while some remarkable architectural integrity was observed in the antioxidant-treated groups. It can be concluded that vitamin E or C improved sperm quality and protected against the brain damage caused by rifampicin. Moreover, vitamin E demonstrated remarkable hepatoprotection against rifampicin induced damage while vitamin C shows a questionable hepatoprotection.

Protection against arsenic-induced hematological and hepatic anomalies by supplementation of vitamin C and vitamin E in adult male rats

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubia Mondal ◽  
Sagnik Biswas ◽  
Anirban Chatterjee ◽  
Raghwendra Mishra ◽  
Aparna Mukhopadhyay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Arsenic Exposure ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substance ◽  
Oxidative Balance ◽  
Chronic Arsenic Exposure

AbstractBackground:Chronic arsenic exposure via contaminated drinking water is a global environmental health problem associated with hematological, hepatic and many serious systemic disorders. This study on adult male rats evaluated the protective effects of vitamin E (VE) and vitamin C (VC) against arsenic-mediated hematological and hepatic toxicities.Methods:Arsenic was administered orally as arsenic trioxide (3 mg/kg body weight/day), as a single dose for 30 consecutive days or along with VC/ascorbic acid (200 mg/kg body weight/day dissolved in water) and VE/α-tocopherol (400 mg/kg body weight/day dissolved in olive oil) as supplements. Multiple hematological and hepatic parameters were assessed.Results:Arsenic exposure caused significant reduction of erythrocyte counts (p<0.05), leukocyte counts (p<0.01) and hemoglobin (Hb) levels (p<0.01). Arsenic exposure also led to marked echinocytic transformation of erythrocytes resulting in increased morphological index (p<0.001). Altered serum oxidative balance was observed with a higher oxidative stress index (p<0.001). The results also showed a significant increase of serum cholesterol (p<0.05), low-density lipoprotein (p<0.001) and triglycerides (p<0.01), and decreased high-density lipoprotein (p<0.01) along with total protein (p<0.01). A marked elevation of hepatic thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (p<0.05) along with decreased reduced glutathione (p<0.001) levels were also observed. Interestingly, co-administration of VC and VE significantly prevented all the arsenic-induced alterations (p<0.05) except Hb content and serum protein.Conclusions:The present investigation offers strong evidence regarding the protective efficacy of co-administration of VC and VE against hematotoxicity and hepatotoxicity in adult male rats caused by chronic arsenic exposure.

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