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Effects on Sperms' Quality of Selegiline in Aged Rats.

Open Med Chem J · 2017-11-30

DOI: 10.2174/1874104501711010138PMID: 29387272

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BackgroundSelegiline is used to treat Parkinsonian patients. Other indications of its use have recently been discovered.ObjectiveScouting special and beneficial side effects of selegiline treatment.MethodTwo-year old male Wistar rats were daily treated with 0.25 mg/kg of selegiline s.c. (subcutaneous injection). The rats were sacrificed following a four-weeks' treatment.ResultsMass of testes, number of sperms, progressive motility of sperms, and their viability definitely increased.ConclusionSelegiline can successfully be used to stop/counterbalance certain symptoms of aging.

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