Effect of a Traditional Herbal Prescription, Kyung-Ok-Ko, on Male Mouse Spermatogenic Ability after Heat-Induced Damage

Table 1

Body and testicular weights and sperm parameters in mice after heat stress and/or KOK treatment for 5 weeks.

Groups	Normal	HE	HE + KOK 0.25 g	HE + KOK 0.5 g	HE + KOK 2 g
Body weight (g)	35.22 ± 1.09	32.91 ± 0.49	31.55 ± 0.39	34.03 ± 0.76	33.18 ± 0.34
Testes weight (mg)	117.75 ± 2.83	47.27 ± 1.51	40.76 ± 1.04	79.76 ± 2.74	73.88 ± 4.23
Relative testes weight (%)	0.34 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01	0.24 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.01
Sperm count (×10^6)	61.22 ± 1.77	12.15 ± 0.49	40.76 ± 1.40	20.98 ± 1.35	24.83 ± 1.97
Sperm motility (%)	49.11 ± 0.93	24.22 ± 1.01	30.80 ± 0.46	36.16 ± 0.68	39.22 ± 0.65

The data represents the mean ± SEM (). , compared with the normal group; , compared with the heat stress group.