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Hutch. &amp; Dalz is one of the many medicinal plants used in folklore as male fertility enhancers. This research was aimed at evaluating the anti-peroxidative activity of the leaves of this plant by determining their capacity to reduce malondialdehyde (MDA) level in reproductive organs and accessory glands of rats. Adult male rats were administered orally with the aqueous leaf extract from<jats:italic>T. conophorum<\/jats:italic>at 50, 500 and 1000\u2009mg\/kg body weight for 21 consecutive days while clomiphene citrate (1.04\u2009mg\/kg body weight), a fertility drug was used as standard. The results of the study indicated that there was increase in relative organ weight, body weight, mean total food and water consumed by the treated groups. Testicular MDA level was highly significantly different from that of the control (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M1\"><mml:mi>p<\/mml:mi><mml:mo>&lt;<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>0.0001<\/mml:mn><\/mml:math>) although a tentatively decreased MDA level was observed. However, MDA levels in the reproductive accessory glands, epididymis, seminal vesicle and prostate gland were insignificantly (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M2\"><mml:mi>p<\/mml:mi><mml:mo>&lt;<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>0.05<\/mml:mn><\/mml:math>) lower than those of controls. The highest percentage decrease of MDA level (66.35, 42.68, 62.50 and 63.36%) was observed at the highest concentration of the extract (1000\u2009mg\/kg) in the testis, epididymis, seminal vesicle and prostate gland respectively. These values were two-fold greater than the values obtained for the standard drug. Interestingly, the treatment of rats with the extract significantly increased the activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and the levels of GSH, vitamin C and total protein. Collectively, the results suggest that the extract from<jats:italic>T. conophorum<\/jats:italic>leaves had greater capacity to reduce lipid peroxidation in reproductive organs and accessory glands and thus, this plant may be useful in the treatment\/management of reproductive cellular damage involving reactive oxygen species.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2015\/798491","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,5,7]],"date-time":"2015-05-07T21:23:40Z","timestamp":1431033820000},"page":"1-8","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Antiperoxidative Activity of<i>Tetracarpidium conophorum<\/i>Leaf Extract in Reproductive Organs of Male Rats"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2015","author":[{"given":"Seun Funmilola","family":"Akomolafe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Ekiti State University, PMB 5363, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria"},{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, PMB 704, Akure, Nigeria"},{"name":"Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5167-9779","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ganiyu","family":"Oboh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, PMB 704, Akure, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Afolabi Akintunde","family":"Akindahunsi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, PMB 704, Akure, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anthony Jide","family":"Afolayan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2605.1989.tb01290.x"},{"key":"2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2605.1993.tb01177.x"},{"key":"3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.305.6854.609"},{"key":"4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1055\/s-2007-1021422"},{"key":"5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3109\/07853899209149953"},{"issue":"6","key":"6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"464","DOI":"10.1002\/j.1939-4640.1995.tb00566.x","volume":"16","year":"1995","journal-title":"Journal of Andrology"},{"key":"7","year":"1995"},{"issue":"2","key":"8","first-page":"93","volume":"22","year":"2007","journal-title":"International Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"},{"key":"9","first-page":"112","volume-title":"Medicinal plants by species names","year":"2008"},{"key":"10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3923\/pjn.2003.335.338"},{"key":"11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.9734\/ARRB\/2014\/5426"},{"key":"12","volume-title":"Animal welfare act. 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