Efeito do tratamento crônico com extratos de Heteropterys aphrodisiaca O. Mach. e Anemopaegma arvense (Vell.) Stellf. no testículo de ratos Wistar adultos

• Autor(a) principal: Chieregatto, Luiz Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5020
• topic: Reprodução animal; Heteropterys aphrodisiaca; Anemopaegma arvense; Ratos; Testículos; Animal reproduction; Heteropterys aphrodisiaca; Anemopaegma arvense; Rats; Testis; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::MORFOLOGIA

The traditional medicine offers large indications for scientific experimentations involving vegetal products that have been used by the population for a long time. Among the several plants, those considered aphrodisiac have an outstanding role in the popular medicine. The most emphatic indications in the State of Mato Grosso refer to the species Heteropterys aphrodisiaca (nó-de-cachorro) and Anemopaegma avense (vergateza) as the most powerful aphrodisiac in the Cerrado. In this work, the actions of the rough extracts of nó-de-cachorro roots and vergateza were evaluated on the corporal biometry, vesicular gland, seminiferous tubule cells of Leydig and other components of the intertubular tissues of adult rats Wistar in reproductive age chronically treated. 62 male rates Wistar in reproductive age were divided into 5 groups. The animals of the control group were exposed to daily gavage for 56 days, receiving 0.5 ml of salt solution. The animals of the other groups received 0.5 ml of extracts obtained from the two species in two different concentrations. The extracts of H. aphrodisiaca, in both concentrations tested increased significantly the corporal weight, the thickness of the seminiferous epithelium, the diameter of the seminiferous tubule, the volume ratio of the nucleus and cytoplasm of the cells of Leydig and the individual and total volume of the cells of Leydig. The treatment with the larger concentration of H. aphrodisiaca also caused increases in the weight of the testicular parenchyma. The animals treated with extracts from A. arvense, showed significant results on the corporal weight only when receiving higher concentrations. The extracts of A. arvense also showed expressive increases in the thickness of the seminiferous epithelium, in the diameter of the seminiferous tubule, in the volume ratio of the cytoplasm of the cells of Leydig and in the individual volume of those same cells.