Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Research Article

Effect of Melatonin Intake on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in Male Reproductive Organs of Rats under Experimental Diabetes

Table 1

The mean and standard deviation of body, prostate, testis, and epididymis wet weight and blood glucose levels of short- and long-term experimental groups.


	C1	M1	D1	MD1

Body weight (g)	383.27 ± 39.92^a	390.85 ± 66.88^a	320.94 ± 46.91^b	293.85 ± 28.67^b
Prostate weight (mg)	371.57 ± 36.04^a	346.1 ± 42.28^a,b	288.53 ± 68.19^b	328.68 ± 82.24^a,b
Testis weight (g)	1.694 ± 0.10^a,b	1.795 ± 0.22^a	1.629 ± 0.19^a,b	1.570 ± 0.09^b
Epididymis (mg)	540.86 ± 0.06^a,b,c	590.39 ± 0.09^a	494.22 ± 0.11^b,c	496.58 ± 0.06^c
Blood glucose levels (mg/dL)	111.21 ± 33.10^a	102.85 ± 16.63^a	359.66 ± 79.48^b	404.18 ± 32.36^b

	C2	M2	D2	MD2

Body weight (g)	451.71 ± 16.14^A#	450.57 ± 40.72	259.66 ± 14.22^B#	295.2 ± 59.33^B,C
Prostate weight (mg)	613.4 ± 89.0	543.33 ± 67.58	219.6 ± 50.53^B	231.5 ± 34.88
Testis weight (g)	1.812 ± 0.09	1.701 ± 0.21^A	1.603 ± 0.24^A	1.504 ± 0.30^A
Epididymis (mg)	728.64 ± 0.05	612.35 ± 0.15^A,B	466.04 ± 0.05^B	733.75 ± 0.17
Blood glucose levels (mg/dL)	87.85 ± 11.12^A#	89 ± 9.05^A	491.16 ± 56.55	483.4 ± 84.2

C1: one-week control; M1: one-week control treated with melatonin; D1: one-week diabetic; MD1: one-week diabetic treated with melatonin; C2: two-month control; M2: two-month control treated with melatonin; D2: two-month diabetic; MD2: two-month diabetic treated with melatonin ( animals/group). Different lowercase letters indicate statistical differences among short-term experimental groups (parametric data: prostate and epididymis weight; nonparametric data: body and testis weight and blood glucose levels). Different uppercase letters indicate statistical differences among long-term experimental groups (parametric data: prostate weight; nonparametric data: body, testis and epididymis weight, and blood glucose levels). Indicates a statistical difference between experimental periods (parametric data). ^#Indicates a statistical difference between experimental periods (nonparametric data).