Effects of Consumption of Caged and Un-Caged Chicken Meat on Ovarian Health of Female Wistar Rats

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Effects of Consumption of Caged and Un-Caged Chicken Meat on Ovarian Health of Female Wistar Rats

**Saara Ahmad^1,*, Iftikhar Ahmed², Saida Haider³, Zehra Batool³, Fatima Ahmed⁴, Saiqa Tabassum^3,6, Syeda Madiha³, Tahira Perveen³ and Saad Bilal Ahmed⁵**

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

²Department of Biochemistry, Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

³Neurochemistry and Biochemical Neuropharmacology Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

⁴Department of Opthalmology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

⁵Department of Geriatrics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

⁶Department of Biochemistry, Barrett Hodgson University, Karachi, Pakistan

* Corresponding author: saara_ahmad@hotmail.com;

saara.muddasir@aku.edu

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Fig. 1.

Effects of different diets on plasma cholesterol (A), progestril (B), estradiol (C) and androgen (D) levels. Values are mean±SD; **p<0.01.

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Fig. 2.

Effects of different diets on weight of ovaries following six weeks of treatment. Values are mean±SD; **p<0.01.

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Fig. 3.

Histopathological examination of ovary samples showing the presence of cysts in caged chicken meat treated animals (A), misrograph of ovary section of control (B), uncaged chicken meat treated rats (C), raw spinach treated rats (D) and soybean treated animals (E) showed normal ovarian cells.

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