African star apple fruit pulp‐supplemented diet modulates fertility‐related biomolecules in the testis and epididymis of high‐fat diet/streptozotocin‐induced diabetic rats
| Autor: | Olubunmi Bolanle Ajayi, Ifeoluwa Adebayo Odeniyi, Seun F. Akomolafe, Folake Lucy Oyetayo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Blood Glucose
Male medicine.medical_specialty food.ingredient 030309 nutrition & dietetics Biophysics Biology Diet High-Fat Nitric Oxide Diabetes Mellitus Experimental Nitric oxide 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0404 agricultural biotechnology food Semen Diabetes mellitus Internal medicine Testis medicine Animals Humans Star apple Epididymis Pharmacology Sapotaceae 0303 health sciences Arginase Glycogen Cholesterol 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Cell Biology Streptozotocin medicine.disease Malondialdehyde Animal Feed 040401 food science Diet Rats Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Fruit Food Science medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Food Biochemistry. 43 |
| ISSN: | 1745-4514 0145-8884 |
| Popis: | This study evaluated the modulatory effect of African star apple fruit (ASAF) pulp inclusive diet on biomolecules associated with reproductive function in the testis and epididymis of high-fat diet/streptozotocin-induced diabetic male rats. The rats were divided into seven groups: control, diabetic control, diabetic rats treated with metformin, diabetic rats served with diet having 5 and 10% ASAF, respectively, and control rats served with diet containing 5%, and 10% ASAF respectively for 14 days. There were noticeable decrease in sperm parameters, reproductive hormone, glycogen, nitric oxide, total thiol, nonprotein thiol levels, and testicular 3β- and 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activities and concomitant increase in cholesterol, reactive oxygen species, malondialdehyde levels, and arginase activity compared to the control. Nevertheless, ASAFs reversed all these parameters toward the control levels. Therefore, these findings suggest that ASAF pulp-supplemented diet might be an active approach in controlling male reproductive dysfunction induced by diabetes. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: The results suggest that ASAF pulp-supplemented diet might be an active approach in controlling male reproductive dysfunction induced by diabetes through alterations in the levels of blood glucose, glycogen, cholesterol, nitric oxide, reproductive hormones, activities of steroidogenic enzymes, arginase, and sperm characteristics as well as the antioxidant status in the testes and epididymis. |
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