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Although no drugs have secured approval for this urgent circumstance, antioxidants emerge as promising candidates. This study aspires to illustrate the influence of eprosartan, an AT1R antagonist, on testicular torsion in rats. Wistar albino rats were meticulously separated into five groups, (n\u2009=\u20096): sham group, eprosartan group, testicular torsion-detorsion (T\/D) group, and two groups of T\/D treated with two oral doses of eprosartan (30 or 60\u00a0mg\/kg). Serum testosterone, sperm analysis and histopathological examination were done to evaluate spermatogenesis. Oxidative stress markers were assessed. Bax, BCL-2, SIRT1, Nrf2, HO-1 besides cleaved caspase-3 testicular contents were estimated using ELISA or qRT-PCR. As autophagy markers, SQSTM-1\/p62, Beclin-1, mTOR and AMPK were investigated. Our findings highlight that eprosartan effectively improved serum testosterone levels, testicular weight, and sperm count\/motility\/viability, while mitigating histological irregularities and sperm abnormalities induced by T\/D. This recovery in testicular function was underpinned by the activation of the cytoprotective SIRT1\/Nrf2\/HO-1 axis, which curtailed testicular oxidative stress, indicated by lowering the MDA content and increasing GSH content. In terms of apoptosis, eprosartan effectively countered apoptotic processes by decreasing cleaved caspase-3 content, suppressing <jats:italic>Bax<\/jats:italic> and stimulating <jats:italic>Bcl-2<\/jats:italic> gene expression. Simultaneously, it reactivated impaired autophagy by increasing Beclin-1 expression, decreasing the expression of SQSTM-1\/p62 and modulate the phosphorylation of AMPK and mTOR proteins. 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