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. 2020 Oct 21;10(10):1930. doi: 10.3390/ani10101930

Table 1.

Boar sperm motility (%) following exposure to quercetin or naringenin (n = 28).

0 h 24 h 48 h 72 h
Ctrl 75.00 ± 7.33 52.25 ± 8.13 49.25 ± 6.94 46.00 ± 2.30
5 µM/L QUE 87.00 ± 3.74 83.00 ± 3.45 *** 69.25 ± 0.85 ** 56.75 ± 2.74
10 µM/L QUE 84.50 ± 3.42 90.25 ± 3.33 **** 68.75 ± 8.15 ** 57.00 ± 2.30 *
25 µM/L QUE 85.22 ± 3.80 77.75 ± 2.00 ** 48.50 ± 1.90 26.75 ± 4.96 *
50 µM/L QUE 67.00 ± 6.14 38.75 ± 4.15 25.75 ± 1.39 * 2.00 ± 0.77 ****
5 µM/L NAR 78.50 ± 6.21 62.25 ± 3.96 60.25 ± 7.31 52.75 ± 4.64
10 µM/L NAR 79.25 ± 8.07 79.50 ± 3.00 *** 68.00 ± 4.06 ** 54.25 ± 2.97
25 µM/L NAR 83.75 ± 5.72 69.75 ± 3.83 * 65.75 ± 5.43 * 59.00 ± 2.16 *
50 µM/L NAR 80.75 ± 6.41 69.00 ± 5.00 * 44.50 ± 8.07 35.00 ± 5.66

Mean ± S.D. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001; **** p < 0.0001 in comparison with the control. QUE—quercetin; NAR—naringenin.