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Allicin and Lycopene Possesses a Protective Effect against Methotrexate-induced Testicular Toxicity in Rats
 
Mohamed Aboubakr1*, Mohamed Elbadawy1, Samar Saber Ibrahim2, Eman Khalil3, Marwa Darweish4, Ahmed Farag5, Ahmed Elfadadny6, Mohamed Alkafafy7, Ahmed Soliman8 and Asmaa Elsayed1
 

1Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, 13736 Moshtohor, Toukh, Qaliobiya, Egypt; 2Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, 13736 Moshtohor, Toukh, Qaliobiya, Egypt; 3Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, 13736 Moshtohor, Toukh, Qaliobiya, Egypt; 4Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, 13736 Moshtohor, Toukh, Qaliobiya, Egypt; 5Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt; 6Department of Animal Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhur University, Damanhur, Egypt; 7Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia; 8Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, 12211 Giza, Egypt
*Corresponding author: mohamed.aboubakr@fvtm.bu.edu.eg

Abstract   

Methotrexate (MTX) is a chemotherapeutic medicine frequently used to treat various forms of cancer. The objective of our research was to examine whether allicin (ALC) and lycopene (LP) could alleviate the harmful effects of MTX-induced testicular toxicity in rats. A total of 49 male white albino rats were divided into 7 groups (7 rats in each group). The rats of group 1 was kept as a control group and received normal saline orally; while rats of group 2 and group 3 administered ALC (20mg/kg/BW) LP (10mg/kg/BW) orally. On day 15, the rats of group 4 received a single dose of MTX (20mg/kg, IP). In group 5, rats received ALC and MTX; in group 6, rats received LP and MTX, and in group 7, rats received ALC, LP, and MTX. Results showed that MTX induced significant increase in values of testicular malondialdehyde (MDA) levels with a substantial reduction in glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and lowered the serum testosterone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and lutenizing hormone (LH) levels. MTX induced a marked decline in seminiferous tubule diameter and epithelium height. MTX showed a widening of the interstitial space of seminiferous tubules, atrophy, vacuolar degeneration of the germinal epithelium and Leydig's interstitial cells had scanty cytoplasm and vesicular nuclei. Also, testicular proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) expression was recorded. In MTX-intoxicated rats, ALC and LP increased antioxidant biomarkers, decreased MDA, and attenuated changes in serum hormonal parameters. It is concluded that ALC and LP have significant protective effects on MTX- induced testicular toxicity due to their antioxidant properties.

To Cite This Article: Aboubakr M, Elbadawy M, Ibrahim SS, Khalil E, Darweish M, Farag A, Elfadadny A, Alkafafy M, Soliman A, Elsayed A, 2023. Allicin and lycopene possesses a protective effect against methotrexate-induced testicular toxicity in rats. Pak Vet J, 43(3): 559-566. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.057

 
   
 

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