Morphological Changes in the Testis of Wistar Rats Under the Influence of Non-Specific Chronic Stress

Abstract

The experiment on male Wistar rats has demonstrated that the exposure to modelled chronic stress for 10 days causes disturbances of spermatogenesis processes and exerts influence on the decrease of the relative number of Leydig cells in the rats` testis. It has been found that after 10 days of the chronic stress modelling by Ortiz J., the number of active forms of the Leydig cells decreases and the number of non-active forms of steroid-producing cells increases in the interstitial tissue of the testis of the Wistar rats.