Residual effect of dinothrombium tinctonium on male reproductive physiology

ABSTRACT

Dinothrombium tinctorium [red velvet mites] have been reported to exhibit androgenic effects. A study has been conducted in which the effect of the powder of these mites on the complete reproductive physiology of the male rat is seen. The findings are suggestive of the fact that the androgenic properties of these mites result in highly significant changes in the seminal profile and the weight and histology of the reproductive organs after 56 days treatment. This effect erodes off with the passage of time, as after 45 days all the parameters return to the basal level