Publication: Comparison of intraperitoneal and intratesticular ozone therapy for the treatment of testicular ischemia- reperfusion injury in rats
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2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Mete, Fatih
Tarhan, Huseyin
Celik, Orcun
Akarken, Ilker
Vural, Kamil
Ekin, Rahmi Gokhan
Aydemir, Isil
Ilbey, YUSUF ÖZLEM
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We compare the efficacy of intratesticular ozone therapy with intraperitoneal ozone therapy in an experimental rat model. For this purpose, 24 rats were divided into four groups including sham-operated, torsion/detorsion, torsion/detorsion plus intraperitoneal ozone (O-P), and torsion/detorsion plus intratesticular ozone (O-IT). The O-IP ozone group received a 4 mg kg(-1) intraperitoneal injection of ozone, and the O-IT group received the same injection epididymally. At 4 h after detorsion, the rats were sacrificed and orchiectomy materials were assessed histopathologically. Spermatogenesis in the seminiferous tubules and damage to the Sertoli cells were histopathologically evaluated in the testes using the Johnsen scoring system. i-NOS and e-NOS activities in the testis tissue were also evaluated. Torsion-detorsion caused a decreased Johnsen score and increased apoptosis of spermatogonial and Sertoli cells. Ozone injection prevented increases in Johnsen score and i-NOS level. e-NOS level of the O-IP group was significantly lower than that of the O-IP group, and i-NOS level of the O-IT group was significantly lower than that of the O-IP group. Local ozone therapy is more effective than systemic ozone therapy at improving IRI-related testicular torsion. Our study is the first to show that the efficacy of intratesticular implementation of ozone therapy is higher than that of intraperitoneal ozone therapy.
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Mete F., Tarhan H., Celik O., Akarken I., Vural K., Ekin R. G. , Aydemir I., Ilbey Y. Ö. , -Comparison of intraperitoneal and intratesticular ozone therapy for the treatment of testicular ischemia- reperfusion injury in rats-, ASIAN JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY, cilt.19, sa.1, ss.43-46, 2017