Research Article

Compromised Rat Testicular Antioxidant Defence System by Hypothyroidism before Puberty

Table 1

Effect of neonatal PTU treatment on bodyweight (g) of animals. Data are expressed as mean ± S.D. of 5 observations and subjected to unpaired Student’s t-test. Statistical significance was accepted at . Control and hypothyroid groups were found to differ significantly at as represented by superscripts of different letters. Group-I (control): 30-day-old control rats; Group-II (hypothyroid): 30-day-old rats with PTU treatment from day 1 postpartum to day 30 postpartum.

Group-I (control)Group-II (hypothyroid)

Bodyweight (g)Initial (on date of birth)6.37 ± 0.28a6.69 ± 0.44a
Final (on date of sacrifice)55.00 ± 6.85a28.00 ± 4.47b
Weight gain (g)48.63 ± 6.68a21.31 ± 4.61b
% Decrease in body weight from controlNila42.42 ± 9.20b