Table 3.
Effect of age on testosterone concentrations of plasma and testicular tissue in male camel during non-breeding season (mean ± SE).
| Item | Age (year) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 2 | 3 | 4.5 | 5 | 5.5 | 6 | 9 | |
| Plasma (ng/ml) | 0.15 ± 0.09 | 0.23 ± 0.02 | 0.23 ± 0.02 | 1.71 ± 1.30 | 1.57 ± 1.16 | 1.73 ± 0.27 | 2.13 ± 0.74 | 1.4 ± 0.12 |
| Testicular tissue (ng/g) | 224.5 ± 60.27b | 127.33 ± 1.76c | 367.33 ± 9.33a | 290.1 ± 4.95ab | 244.67 ± 1.45b | 273.67 ± 13.91ab | 302.76 ± 38.67ab | 370.67 ± 1.76a |
a–c Means in the same row having different letters, differ significantly (P ⩽ 0.01).