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Two doses of RA (5 and 15 mg kg\u20131) were studied in sexually mature rats with and without MTZ-induced infertility. Rats were intraperitoneally injected with 5 mg kg\u20131 RA or 15 mg kg\u20131 RA (in distilled water) and, 45 min later, they were intraperitoneally injected with 40 mg kg\u20131 MTZ (in distilled water). Cauda epididymidal sperm suspensions were used to assess sperm count, motility and morphology. Histological and ultrastructural studies were performed on the testes and cauda epididymidis. In rats in which infertility was not induced, neither dose of RA affected the parameters assessed. However, in sexually mature rats in which infertility was induced by 40 mg kg\u20131 MTZ, RA at both 5 and 15 mg kg\u20131 ameliorated the damaging effects of MTZ on final bodyweight (30 days later), sperm motility and morphology. Only 5 mg kg\u20131 RA, and not 15 mg kg\u20131 RA, improved the harmful effects of MTZ on the sperm count and testis ultrastructure. 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