Table 1.

Comparison of epididymal sperm count, motility and progressive motility of sperm, weights of testis and epididymis among Group I (control), Group II (fed on NaF for 30 days) and Group III (fed on NaF for 60 days) using ANOVA and post-hoc Tukey test

Parameters	Group I Mean ± SD	Group II Mean ± SD	Group III Mean ± SD	ANOVA “F”-value	P-value
Sperm count × 106/epididymis	162 ± 10.52	111.75 ± 17.48*	91.5 ± 11.25†,‡	72.777	0.000
Sperm motility (%)	72.1 ± 3.28	59.1 ± 10.28*	55.9 ± 7.24†	13.053	0.000
Progressive motility of sperm (%)	58.6 ± 6.02	47.1 ± 11.44*	39 ± 7.02†	13.436	0.000
Testicular weight (g)	3.22 ± 0.46	2.86 ± 0.37*	2.63 ± 0.42†	4.931	0.015
Epididymal weight (g)	0.63 ± 0.21	0.46 ± 0.06*	0.45 ± 0.05†	5.835	0.008

^*Post-hoc Tukey test (P < 0.05) comparison between Groups I and II;

^†Post-hoc Tukey test (P < 0.05) comparison between Groups I and III;

^‡Post-hoc Tukey test (P < 0.05) comparison between Groups II and III