title: Effect of different intensities of swimming exercise on testicular oxidative stress and reproductive dysfunction in mature male albino Wistar rats.
abstract: Swimming exercise for 1, 2 and 3 hr for 5 days/week for consecutive 4 weeks, results in a significant reduction in testicular, epididymal, prostetic, seminal vesicle somatic indices; epididymal sperm count, sperm motility; preleptotine spermatocytes, mid pachytene spermatocytes and stage 7 spermatids; plasma levels of testosterone, luteinizing hormone; testicular delta5, 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase; testicular superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione-s-transferase and glutathione along with significant elevation in malondialdehyde in male albino rats. However, no significant change was noted in final body weight, spermatogonia-A and plasma level of follicle stimulating hormone. The results that oxidative stress develops with the increasing of exercise intensity, which may interfere in male reproductive activities.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Surgery & Radiology, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences, Kolkata 700 037, India.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Manna
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jana
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Samanta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology*; D013076:Sperm Count; D013081:Sperm Motility; D013091:Spermatogenesis / Q000502:physiology; D013256:Steroids / Q000097:blood; D013550:Swimming / Q000502:physiology; D013737:Testis / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D013256:Steroids