Dietary quercetin maintains the semen quality in rabbits under summer heat stress.

Autor: Naseer Z; Department of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey; Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Electronic address: zahidnaseer@uaar.edu.pk., Ahmad E; Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan., Şahiner HS; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey., Epikmen ET; Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey., Fiaz M; Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan., Yousuf MR; Department of Theriogenology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan., Khan SA; Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The University of Poonch, Rawalakot, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan., Serin İ; Department of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey., Ceylan A; Department of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey., Aksoy M; Department of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Theriogenology [Theriogenology] 2018 Dec; Vol. 122, pp. 88-93. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Sep 15.
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2018.09.009
Abstrakt: This study focused to determine beneficial impact of feeding quercetin supplemented diet on semen quality in summer heat imposed rabbits. Twelve heat stressed (HS) adult rabbits bucks were either fed with basal diet (HS; n = 06) or quercetin supplemented diet (QU-HS; n = 06) for a period of 56 days. Semen samples were collected and evaluated for volume, osmolality, morphology, concentration, motility, motion kinetics, viability, acrosome integrity, mitochondrial potential, and seminal plasma MDA level. Semen volume, concentration, motility and sperm kinetics parameters were affected by diet supplementation. Diet affected the sperm mitochondrial potential and day of treatment affected the viable sperm percentage. There was an effect of diet, day of treatment and diet by day interaction on acrosome reaction rate. Sperm head abnormalities were influenced by diet provision, sperm mid-piece abnormalities were affected by diet and day of treatment, whereas, the effect of diet and diet by day of treatment interaction were observed for total sperm abnormalities. There was an effect of diet and diet by day interaction for seminal plasma MDA level. In conclusions, quercetin reduces the damaging effects of HS and maintains the semen quality by lowering the oxidative stress in rabbits.
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