Table 1.

Comparison of sperm parameters in the control, 2.5 (group I), 5 (group II) and 10 (group III) mg/kg groups

	Group
Sperm parameters	Control	Group I	Group II	Group III	p-value
Count ( $\times$ 106/ml)	28.38 $\pm$ 6.54	27.37 $\pm$ 6.18	26.25 $\pm$ 7.75	25.00 $\pm$ 6.34	0.49
Progressive motility (%)	52.75 $\pm$ 6.60	49.87 $\pm$ 14.09	41.88 $\pm$ 9.37 ${}^{**}$	37.75 $\pm$ 10.09 ${}^{**}$	$<$ 0.01
Non-progressive motility (%)	19.62 $\pm$ 3.24	18.98 $\pm$ 8.78	20.50 $\pm$ 8.56	21.50 $\pm$ 6.21	0.07
Immotile sperm (%)	27.63 $\pm$ 6.98	31.15 $\pm$ 7.96	37.62 $\pm$ 11.78 ${}^{*}$	40.75 $\pm$ 9.88 ${}^{*}$	$<$ 0.01
Normal morphology (%)	83.00 $\pm$ 5.90	62.50 $\pm$ 9.54 ${}^{**}$	57.12 $\pm$ 6.05 ${}^{**}$	51.87 $\pm$ 19.29 ${}^{**}$	$<$ 0.01
Viability (%)	72.87 $\pm$ 5.84	69.00 $\pm$ 6.90	56.00 $\pm$ 9.90 ${}^{*}$	50.37 $\pm$ 13.01 ${}^{**}$	$<$ 0.01
Values presented as Mean $\pm$ SD. One-way ANOVA followed by a Tukey post hoc test were used for comparison of the data between the different groups. *P $<$ 0.05, **P $<$ 0.001 when compared to the control group