Table 2.

Total tubular area (TA), seminiferous epithelium area (EA) and number of Sertoli cells (SC), spermatocytes (Sp) and spermatids (St) per tubule of animals from control (C-30 and C-60) and tacrolimus (T-30 and T-60) groups

Animals	TA (μm2)	EA (μm2)	SC/tubule	Sp/tubule	St/tubule
C-30	88,167 ± 4,885	81,587 ± 4,766	12.36 ± 0.49	118.6 ± 9.9	228.9 ± 13.7
T-30	68,889 ± 5,739*	64,051 ± 5,712*	10.22 ± 0.38*	70.7 ± 8.9*	94.8 ± 20.0*
C-60	108,812 ± 8,044	101,580 ± 7,035	13.00 ± 0.48	102.1 ± 11.1	207.2 ± 20.2
T-60	93,376 ± 7,455*	87,478 ± 7,160*	9.70 ± 0.14*	72.8 ± 9.0*	141.6 ± 7.1*

*p < 0.05(statistically significant)