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: I Manna, K Jana, P K Samanta
• Journal: Indian journal of experimental biology (Indian J Exp Biol) Vol. 42 Issue 8 Pg. 816-22 (Aug 2004) ISSN: 0019-5189 [Print] India
• PMID: 15573534 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antioxidants
• Steroids

Topics

• Animals
• Antioxidants (metabolism)
• Genitalia, Male (anatomy & histology)
• Male
• Organ Size
• Oxidative Stress
• Physical Exertion (physiology)
• Rats
• Rats, Wistar
• Reproduction (physiology)
• Sperm Count
• Sperm Motility
• Spermatogenesis (physiology)
• Steroids (blood)
• Swimming (physiology)
• Testis (anatomy & histology, metabolism)