. 2019 Nov 25;2019:3429635. doi: 10.1155/2019/3429635

Table 4.

Volumetric density and volume of intertubular compartment in the testes of mice exposed to cadmium chloride (CdCl₂) (n = 5 animals/group).

	Control	i.p. SD	Oral SD	Oral FD
Volumetric density (%)
Intertubule	11.20 ± 0.41	12.25 ± 1.50	11.88 ± 1.12	11.26 ± 1.07
Connective tissue	0.70 ± 0.19ª	0.92 ± 0.17ª	1.36 ± 0.25^b	0.94 ± 0.17ª
Lymphatic space	0.92 ± 0.43	0.42 ± 0.24	0.56 ± 0.11	0.87 ± 0.51
Blood vessel	1.92 ± 0.48	1.79 ± 0.42	1.22 ± 0.41	1.51 ± 0.42
Macrophage	0.23 ± 0.02ª	0.50 ± 0.21^b	0.78 ± 0.20^b	0.60 ± 0.19^b
Leydig cytoplasm	6.09 ± 0.53^ab	7.06 ± 1.05^b	6.22 ± 0.37ª	5.84 ± 0.23ª
Leydig nucleus	1.33 ± 0.25ª	1.56 ± 0.25^ab	1.74 ± 0.18^b	1.50 ± 0.18^ab
Leydig cell	7.42 ± 0.75	8.62 ± 1.30	7.96 ± 0.54	7.34 ± 0.35
Volume (mL)
Intertubule	0.023 ± 0.001^ab	0.025 ± 0.002ª	0.022 ± 0.005^ab	0.019 ± 0.002^b
Connective tissue	0.0014 ± 0.0004ª	0.0019 ± 0.0003ª^b	0.0024 ± 0.0006^b	0.0016 ± 0.0003ª
Lymphatic space	0.0019 ± 0.0009	0.0009 ± 0.0005	0.0010 ± 0.0003	0.0015 ± 0.0009
Blood vessel	0.0038 ± 0.0008ª	0.0037 ± 0.0009ª	0.0022 ± 0.0010^b	0.0026 ± 0.0008ª^b
Macrophage	0.0005 ± 0.0001ª	0.0010 ± 0.0005^ab	0.0014 ± 0.0004^b	0.0010 ± 0.0003^b
Leydig cytoplasm	0.0123 ± 0.0014ª	0.0144 ± 0.0014^b	0.0110 ± 0.0018^ac	0.099 ± 0.0005^c
Leydig nucleus	0.0027 ± 0.0004	0.0032 ± 0.0004	0.0031 ± 0.0006	0.0025 ± 0.0003
Leydig cell	0.0150 ± 0.0016ª	0.0176 ± 0.0017^b	0.0141 ± 0.0024^a	0.0124 ± 0.0007^a

Mean ± SDM (standard deviation of the mean); control: distilled water; i.p. SD = CdCl₂ intraperitoneal single dose; oral SD: CdCl₂ oral single dose; oral FD: CdCl₂ oral fractionated dose. ^abDifferent letters in the same row, for each evaluated time, indicate significant differences by the Student-Newman-Keuls test (p ≤ 0.05).