Dietary boron supplementation enhances sperm quality and immunity through influencing the associated biochemical parameters and modulating the genes expression at testicular tissue

CONCLUSION: The study revealed that dietary boron supplementation increased the sperm output, sperm motility and enhanced the immune and antioxidant defense capacity in male goats. The improved semen quality can be attributed to enhanced expression of testicular SERPIN, a crucial protein for the regulation of spermatogenesis process.Graphical abstractDietary boron supplementation increased the sperm output and sperm motility by modulating the immune mechanism, antioxidant capacity and spermatogenic process in male goats. Blue coloured upright arrow depicts significant increase and down arrow depicts significant decrease of the parameters.
Source: Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology - Category: Biochemistry Source Type: research