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Published in final edited form as: Exp Toxicol Pathol. 2008 May 21;60(4-5):269–280. doi: 10.1016/j.etp.2008.02.010

Table 3.

Sperm characteristics in rats inhalationally exposed to 75μg BaP/m³ BaP.

Characteristic	Control	BaP-treated
Sperm progressive motility (%)	85 ± 5.0	23 ± 2.0^*1
Density of stored spermatozoa (X 10⁶)	81 ± 4.0	25 ± 6.0^*1
Morphologically normal sperm (%)	67 ± 4.0	13 ± 3.9^*2
Decapitated spermatozoa (%)	7.2 ± 2.3	60 ± 11^*3
Sperm with abnormal tail (%)	26 ± 3.0	28 ± 7.0

^*1

p < 0.05;

^*2

p < 0.001;

^*3

p < 0.01