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Effect of Ethanolic Extract of Different Parts of Plant (Annona Squamosa) on the Fertility of Male Rats

Volume 1 - Issue 5

Veena B Kushwaha* and Preeti Singh

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    • Department of Zoology, D.D.U Gorakhpur University, India

    *Corresponding author: Veena B Kushwaha, Department of Zoology, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur-273001, Uttar Pradesh, India

Received: September 27, 2017;   Published: October 11, 2017

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000429

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Abstract

Plants, since ancient times, have been used globally across the civilizations as valuable, safe and natural agents of therapeutic, industrial and environmental utilities. From the inception of civilization, humans have relied on plants for their basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing, fuel and health. Of all the uses ascribed to the plants, the curative abilities of plants play an inevitable part as plants sometimes comprise sole source for healing ailments for some civilizations. Plants have also been explored for population control (Annona squamosa) is reported to posses various medicinal effects like insecticidal, antiovulatory and abortifacient. The present study therefore reports the effect of ethanolic effect of leaves, bark and seeds on the fructose level in testis, vas deferens and seminal vesicles, sperm count and sperm motility in rats. A significant decrease (p<0.05) was observed in the level of fructose in testis, vas deferens and seminal vesicle on exposure to the ethanolic extract of leaves, bark and seeds of plant (Annona squamosa) and a significant (p<0.05) decrease in sperm count and motility was also observed in the rats exposed to the extracts of plant in comparison to control rats. The decrease in fructose level, sperm count and motility was found to be time and dose dependent. Among the different parts of the plant, leaves, bark and seeds the effects were in the order leaf < bark< seed. The study clearly indicates plant extracts have potential to inhibit male fertility.

Abbreviations : (Annona squamosa): Sperm Count; Sperm motility; Fructose level; Testis; Vas deferens; Seminal vesicles

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