Subacute Testicular Toxicity to Cadmium Exposure Intraperitoneally and Orally

Table 3

Morphometry and stereology of tubular compartment of mice exposed to cadmium chloride (CdCl₂) ( animals/group).

	Control	i.p. SD	Oral SD	Oral FD
Volume (mL)
Tubule	ª	ª	^b	^b
Epithelium	ª	^ab	^ab	^b
Tunica propria
Lumen	ª	^b	^c	^ac
Tubular diameter (μm)
Lumen diameter (μm)
Epithelium height (μm)	ª	ª^b	^a	^b
STAr (mm^2)
LAr (mm^2)
EAr (mm^2)
TER	ª	ª	^a	^b
STL (m)
STL/g (m/g)

(standard deviation of the mean); control: distilled water; i.p. SD: CdCl₂ intraperitoneal single dose; oral SD: CdCl₂ oral single dose; oral FD: CdCl₂ oral fractionated dose; STAr: seminiferous tubule area; LAr: lumen area; EAr: epithelium area; TER: tubule epithelium ratio; STL: seminiferous tubule length; STL/g: seminiferous tubule length per gram of testis. ^abDifferent letters in the same row, for each evaluated time, indicate significant differences by the Student-Newman-Keuls test ().