Lavandula stoechas essential oils protect against Malathion-induces reproductive disruptions in male mice

Table 3 Effect of sub-chronic treatment (30 days) malathion (200 mg / kg BW, po) and / or essential oils of lavender (50 mg / kg, PC, OP) on variation in the sperm parameters in male-mice

Parameters	CTR	M	LSEO	M + LSEO
Sperm concentration (10⁶/mL)	7.36 ± 2.00	2.76 ± 1.00*	7.89 ± 1.00^#	7.21 ± 2.00^#
Motility (%)	69.00 ± 7.00	40.00 ± 5.00*	68.00 ± 4.00^#	67.00 ± 5.00^#
Viability (%)	79.00 ± 4.00	22 .00 ± 6.00*	81.00 ± 4.00^#	72.00 ± 5.00^#
Morphology (normal form) (%)	86.10 ± 4.52	46.00 ± 3.00*	89.00 ± 4.56^#	79.00 ± 5.38^#
Head Abnormal sperm (%)	5.80 ± 0.96	14.00 ± 2.10*	4.62 ± 1.12^#	6.49 ± 1.71^#
Caudal Abnormal sperm (%)	8.10 ± 1.41	39.00 ± 4.20*	11.60 ± 2.30^#	15.80 ± 1.90^#
Sperm count 10⁶/g epididymis	132.00 ± 16.40	96.00 ± 1.98*	134.00 ± 1.96^#	123.00 ± 3.49^#
Spermatid count 10⁶/g of testis	200.00 ± 9.30	118.00 ± 5.89*	189.00 ± 7.21^#	183.00 ± 8.78^#

The results represent the mean ± SEM (n = 12). (*: P < 0.05 vs. control, and #: P < 0.05 vs Malathion by the student t-test)