Short- and long-term reproductive effects of prenatal and lactational growth restriction caused by maternal diabetes in male rats

Table 5 Sperm counts in rats at 60 and 90 days-old.

	60 days		90 days
	OC (n = 8)	OD (n = 6)	OC (n = 6)	OD (n = 6)
Testis
Daily sperm production (× 10⁶)/testis	24.38 ± 0.77	17.05 ± 1.70^b	38.08 ± 0.85	34.50 ± 1.81
Daily sperm production (× 10⁶)/g of testis	20.98 ± 0.45	20.85 ± 1.26	24.65 ± 0.69	29.52 ± 1.15^a
Number of spermatids (× 10⁶)/testis	148.70 ± 4.70	104.00 ± 10.38^b	232.27 ± 5.16	210.62 ± 11.13
Number of spermatids (× 10⁶)/g of testis	127.97 ± 2.72	127.16 ± 7.67	150.60 ± 0.30	180.23 ± 6.97^b
Caput/corpus epididymis
Sperm number (× 10⁶)	59.71 ± 6.71	25.77 ± 6.21^b	112.63 ± 6.90	92.03 ± 7.40
Sperm number (× 10⁶)/g of epididymal region	401.33 ± 30.55	279.41 ± 47.69^a	365.95 ± 13.88	386.60 ± 14.23
Sperm transit time (days)	2.04 ± 0.21	1.47 ± 0.67^a	2.97 ± 0.17	2.65 ± 0.15
Cauda epididymis
Sperm number (× 10⁶)	27.07 ± 5.68	10.66 ± 5.10	188.08 ± 5.34	137.80 ± 10.55^b
Sperm number (× 10⁶)/g of epididymal region	353.56 ± 53.11	249.18 ± 97.29	1024.25 ± 0.28	840.37 ± 26.67^b
Sperm transit time (days)	1.07 ± 0.20	0.54 ± 0.18	4.95 ± 0.15	4.09 ± 0.26^a

Values expressed as mean ± SEM.^ap < 0.05,^bp < 0.01. Student's t-test. OC- offspring of control dams; OD- offspring of diabetic dams.

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