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

Table 6 Seminiferous epithelium cycle and mean number of Sertoli cells per seminiferous tubule of 90-day-old animals.

	OC (n = 5)	OD (n = 5)
Stages of the germinal epithelium
I-VI	41.75 ± 0.75	39.75 ± 1.32
VII-VIII	28.75 ± 1.49	31.00 ± 1.15
IX-XIII	24.75 ± 0.48	24.5 ± 1.44
XIV	4.75 ± 0.85	4.75 ± 0.48
Mean number of Sertoli cells	14. 70 ± 0.15	14.33 ± 0.18

Values expressed as mean ± SEM. Student's t-test. OC- offspring of control dams; OD - offspring of diabetic dams.

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