Study on the effect of royal jelly of bees (Apis mellifera)‎ on the morphology and sperm function parameters in mice (Swiss albino)‎

Abstract EN

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of Royal jelly RJ on morphology and motility of mice sperms.

Sperms were collected from the cauda region of the epididymis of each 10 mice from the treatment and control groups.

Direct activation techniques and evaluation of sperm morphology were carried out.

Dhino microscope was used for sperm measurement.

The inspection was carried out in Salamatic laboratory for pathological analysis in 2015.The result revealed that all of the sperm function parameters registered significant activation in the treatment group.

There was a significant increase in both the percentage of the sperm motility grade A and the progressive motility (A+B) of the treatment group.

Spermatozoon with different lengths were noticed.

The study explains that this difference may be due to the presence of different sperm developmental stages and not to the increase in the number and sizes of mitochondria in the mid-peace during activation or not to the sliding movement of microtubules in the axon of spermatozoon.

These findings provide evidence that RJ can play an important role only in improving the male mice motility and which may open the way for further researches to demonstrate the possibility of using RJ in artificial insemination in field animals.