Study The Effect of Tribulus terrestris and Phoenix sylvestris powder on Infertility in Male Rats

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This study aimed to investigate the effect of diets enriched withTribulus terrestris and Phoenix sylvestris powder on subfertility rats. Thirty adult male albino rats, weighting 150 - 160 g used in this study and assigned to two main groups. The first is negative control group (6 rats) was received basal diet throughout the experiment .The second group (24 rats) was injected intrapretonial by cadmium chloride (CdCl2, 0.1%) at 0.1 ml/100g body weight to induced subfertility, and divided into 4 subgroups as following:  one kept as positive control group, and the others were received Tribulus terrestris  ,  Phoenix Sylvestris   powder and their mixture by 5% from the basal diet. Body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (F.I), feed efficiency ratio (FER) and Relative weight of tests were calculated. Serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and serum luteinizing hormone (LH) were determined. Also, tests was examined  histopathologicaly. BWG, FER, and Testes weight were significantly (p≤0.05) decreased comparing with positive control, while FI was nonsignificant increase. For  FSH and LH hormone there were significantly (p≤0.05) increases comparing with positive control. Histopathological examinations showed that feeding on diet containing the tested plant parts for 4 weeks induced improvement on the histological structure of the testes.

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