A Comprehensive Toxicological Assessment of Fulvic Acid

Table 7

Sperm abnormality test for FA in mice.

Parameters	Group (mg/kg)
	Control	1,250	2,500	5,000	CP
Number of mice	5	5	5	5	5
Number of sperm observed	5 × 1000	5 × 1000	5 × 1000	5 × 1000	5 × 1000
Number of sperm abnormality	102	88	98	96	432
Abnormal ratio (%)	2.08 ± 0.53	1.79 ± 0.89	2.00 ± 0.78	1.96 ± 0.87	9.47 ± 1.96
Abnormal sperms counted ratio (%)
No hook	11.46 ± 0.57	12.24 ± 0.68	12.50 ± 0.60	12.75 ± 0.59	7.18 ± 1.32
Banana shape	13.54 ± 0.79	10.20 ± 0.51	12.50 ± 0.83	13.73 ± 0.66	5.32 ± 0.99
Amorphous	42.71 ± 0.39	42.86 ± 1.55	44.32 ± 1.05	47.06 ± 0.49	56.25 ± 1.86
Large round head	11.46 ± 0.21	12.24 ± 0.60	10.23 ± 0.51	6.86 ± 0.49	9.72 ± 1.86
Kinks tail	5.21 ± 0.73	7.14 ± 0.59	4.55 ± 0.41	5.88 ± 0.47	3.47 ± 0.64
Two heads	2.08 ± 1.00	3.06 ± 0.37	5.68 ± 0.44	1.96 ± 0.31	2.78 ± 0.75
Two tails	13.54 ± 0.80	12.24 ± 0.75	10.23 ± 0.51	11.76 ± 0.60	15.28 ± 2.32

Cyclophosphamide (CP) is as a positive control; , compared to the control group.