Bifidobacterium longum UABI-14 and Improved Fertility

• "Protective effects of artichoke extract and Bifidobacterium longum on male infertility in diabetic rats".

  • 2024-12
  • RCT
  • Biochemistry and biophysics reports 40
  • • Zahra Ansari
    • Mohammad Hasan Maleki
    • Fatemeh Roohy
    • Zahra Ebrahimi
    • Mesbah Shams
    • Pooneh Mokaram
    • Zahra Zamanzadeh
    • Zahra Hosseinzadeh
    • Farhad Koohpeyma
    • Sanaz Dastghaib

  • PubMed: 39386078
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2024.101834

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Fertility

  • High evidence

  In comparison to the diabetic group, the hydroalcoholic extract of Cynara scolymus L combined with the probiotic Bifidobacterium longum resulted in a substantial decrease in FBS ... Serum levels of TAC, LH, FSH, Testosterone were significantly increased ... [and] showed a significant increase in the number of sexual lineage cells, total weight, sperm count, motility, normal morphology, volume of the testis, and volume and length of seminiferous tubules.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes