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Table 7 Epididymal stereological analysis

From: Vitamin C partially attenuates male reproductive deficits in hyperglycemic rats

 

Experimental groups

 

Normoglycemic

Hyperglycemic

Hyperglycemic + vitamin C

Cauda epididymis (region 6A)

Stroma

15.75 [10.71 - 22.17] a

23.51 [20.39 - 26.80] b

14.30 [11.01 - 20.10] a

Epithelium

14.28 [11.16 - 17.85] a

20.24 [16.82 - 22.02] b

19.64 [17.41 - 23.00] b

Lumen

67.86 [64.29 - 75.16] a

56.25 [48.51 - 62.65] b

63.10 [58.63 - 70.24] a

  1. N = 50 histological fields/group. Values expressed as Median (Q1 - Q3). a, b indicate statistically different results (p < 0.05). Kruskal - Wallis test, with the post hoc Dunn test.
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