Adverse Testicular effects in rats?
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Adverse testicular effects of some quinolone members in rats.
Abd-Allah AR, Aly HA, Moustafa AM, Abdel-Aziz AA, Hamada FM
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Nasr-City, Cairo, Egypt.
In the last few years, a marked decrease in male fertility has been
reported. Environmental factors were recently suspected for this
effect. Among those factors is the misuse of drugs and in particular
antibiotics.Quinolones are a group of antibacterial agents with
broad- spectrum activity. Testicular impairment of some quinolone members
is controversial; a matter which stimulated our attention to
investigate the adverse testicular effects of the most familiar
quinolone members, namely: ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and pefloxacin.
They were given to rats in doses of 72, 135 and 72 mg kg(-1)day(-1)
p.o., respectively, for 15 consecutive days. Ofloxacin was also used
to establish a dose-response relationship in doses of 36, 72 and 360
mg kg(-1) day(-1) p.o. for 15 consecutive days. Results revealed that
ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and pefloxacin reduced testicular LDH-X
activity by 39.8%, 62.7% and 60.7%, respectively.