Effect of Chronic Use of Recreational Drugs on the Sperm Count in Albino Mice
Keywords:
AAS, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Nicotine, Recreational Drugs, Sperm count.Abstract
Chronic use of various recreational drugs is leading to drug abuse which is increasingly developed in the modern society among the various populations throughout the world. The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of a few recreational drugs viz., anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), alcohol and nicotine on male fertility status which was assessed by measuring sperm count in male albino mice. Semen samples were collected from normal, AAS-treated, alcohol-treated and nicotine-treated
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