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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 72, Issue 11, Pages 1501-1506Publisher
JAPAN SOC VET SCI
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.10-0113
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ACTH; corticosterone; LH; restraint stress; sperm motility
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [B-18310044, P05489, P06445]
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The effects of acute restraint stress on sperm motility and reproductive endocrinology were investigated in adult rats. Sperm motility was determined by computer-assisted sperm analysis. Acute restraint stress reduced sperm motility starting after 30 min, and the sperm motility parameters, percentage of motile spermatozoa (%), straight-line velocity, curvilinear velocity, deviation of the sperm head from the mean trajectory and the maximum amplitude of lateral head displacement decreased. It also induced a significant elevation in plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone, prolactin, corticosterone and progesterone and decreased follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, testosterone and immunoreactive (ir-) inhibin. These results clearly demonstrated that the acute restraint stress rapidly suppressed sperm motility and increased the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, whereas it disturbed hypothalamus- pituitary-gonadal axis activity.
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