Dietary chromium deficiency effect on sperm count and fertility in rats
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Biological Trace Element Research
- Vol. 3 (1) , 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02789119
Abstract
Male rats raised on a low chromium diet containing less than 100 ppb chromium had decreased sperm counts and decreased fertility at age 8 months compared to the Cr-supplemented controls. Decreased sperm cell production and fertility were not apparent at age 4 months. At age 7–8 months the frequency of conception was 25 percent or less and the sperm count of the low chromium males was approximately 50 percent of that of the Cr-supplemented rats.Keywords
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