Testicular Toxicity of Water Pipe Smoke Exposure in Mice and the Effect of Treatment with Nootkatone Thereon

Figure 6

Histopathological examination of mouse testes in the air (control), water pipe smoke (WPS), nootkatone (NK), and groups: (a, b) representative sections from testes of the control group showing well-maintained spermatogenesis with spermatozoa (thin arrow) in seminiferous tubules; (c, d) representative sections from testes of the WPS group showing well-maintained spermatogenesis with spermatozoa (thin arrow) in seminiferous tubules, while some of the tubules show no spermatozoa but spermatids in seminiferous tubules (arrowhead); (e, f) representative sections from testes of the NK group showing well-maintained spermatogenesis with spermatozoa (thin arrow) in seminiferous tubules; (g, h) representative sections from testes of the group showing a well-maintained spermatogenesis with spermatozoa (thin arrow) in seminiferous tubules.

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