Obesity is a prominent risk factor for male infertility, and a high-fat diet is an important cause of obesity. Therefore, diet control can reduce body weight and regulate blood glucose and lipids, but it remains unclear whether it can improve male fertil
The study procedures were in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). The experiment was approved by the University of Salzburg’s ethics committee. 2.3. Procedure The verbal fluency task was part of a larger study aiming to investigate sex-...
The rationale of the present work rests on two lines of studies: (a) developmental investigations of spatial abilities in children and (b) a paradigm used in comparative psychology and notably in studies with rats, which aims at understanding spatial cognition within a comparative perspective, link...
We used C3H/HeN (Janvier, Roubaix, France) mice known to be excellent breeders to minimize stress induced by the treatment during perinatal period. Perinatal experiment was conducted as previously described25, excepted that pregnant and lactating mice were daily exposed by dermal route (instead of...
In one experiment, the effect of d-fenfluramine (DF) on gastric emptying was studied in rats treated i.p. with metergoline, a non-selective serotonin (5-HT... R Samanin,JC Neill,G Grignaschi,... - 《European Journal of Pharmacology》 被引量: 133发表: 1991年 Effects on serotonin in...
The treatment regime is shown in Fig. 1A, and the rationale for the doses of DHT and INS has been previously described [29,30,31, 36, 41]. Chronic exposure of pregnant rats to DHT and INS results in hyperandrogenism and insulin resistance [29, 30], which is equivalent to that found...
Upon arrival to the laboratory, the rats were housed individually in operant conditioning chambers (Med Associates, St. Albans, VT, USA) with ad libitum access to food and water. The rats remained in these chambers throughout the experiment except during the 14-day abstinence period as detailed...
Obligate blood-feeding insects obtain the nutrients and water necessary to ensure survival from the vertebrate blood. The internal taste sensilla, situated in the pharynx, evaluate the suitability of the ingested food. Here, through multiple approaches,
The doses of MD-W and MD-E were calculated according to their yields in MD-T, respectively. Then following treatments were administered for 4 weeks: the NC group, the rats were subcutaneous injected (s.c.) with normal saline (0.1 mL); the BPH model group, the rats were treated with ...
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