Reproduction Abstracts

Introduction: Betamethasone is a drug of choice for antenatal treatment. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the age of puberty onset and sperm quality in male rats whose mothers received betamethasone during gestation.Material and methods: Pregnant Wistar rats were allocated into control group and treated with 0.1 mg/kg betamethasone on gestational days 12, 13, 18, and 19. Maternal weight gain and the following parameters of male offspring (...