Magdy Y Elsaeed, Osama Mahmoud Mehanna, Ezz-Eldin E Abd-Allah, Mohamed Gaber Hassan, Walid Mostafa Said Ahmed, Abd El Ghany A Moustafa, Gaber E Eldesoky, Amal M Hammad, Usama Bahgat Elgazzar, Mohamed R Elnady, Fatma M Abd-Allah, Walaa M Shipl, Amr Mohamed Younes, Mostafa Rizk Magar, Ahmed E Amer, Mohamed Ali Mahmoud Abbas, Khaled Saleh Ali Elhamaky, Mohammed Hussien Mohammed Hassan
BACKGROUND: As the impacts of diabetes-induced reproductive damage are now evident in young people, we are now in urgent need to devise new ways to protect and enhance the reproductive health of diabetic people. The present study aimed to evaluate the protective effects of enalapril (an ACE inhibitor) and paricalcitol (a vitamin D analog), individually or in combination, on streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetes-induced testicular dysfunction in rats and to identify the possible mechanisms for this protection...
November 30, 2023: Pathophysiology: the Official Journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology