Compromised Rat Testicular Antioxidant Defence System by Hypothyroidism before Puberty

Table 2

Effect of neonatal PTU treatment on testis and accessory sex organs (g/100 g body weight). Data are expressed as mean ± S.D. of 5 observations and subjected to unpaired Student’s t-test. Statistical significance was accepted at 𝑃<0.05. Control and hypothyroid groups were found to differ significantly at 𝑃<0.05 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)
Weight (g/100 g body weight)	Testis	0.92 ± 0.09^a	0.28 ± 0.02^b
	Epididymis	0.208 ± 0.01^a	0.207 ± 0.02^a
	Seminal vesicle	0.094 ± 0.01^a	0.059 ± 0.005^b
	Ventral prostate	0.103 ± 0.012^a	0.08 ± 0.006^b