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Dietary chromium deficiency effect on sperm count and fertility in rats
1Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Laboratory, 20705, Beltsville, Maryland.
Abstract:
Male rats raised on a low chromium diet containing less than 100 ppb chromium had decreased sperm counts and decreased fertility at age 8 months compared to the Cr-supplemented controls. Decreased sperm cell production and fertility were not apparent at age 4 months. At age 7-8 months the frequency of conception was 25 percent or less and the sperm count of the low chromium males was approximately 50 percent of that of the Cr-supplemented rats.
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