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ArticleFish physiology and biochemistry2022

Ginseng® as a reproductive enhancer agent for African catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822).

Ahmed I Mehrim, Mohamed M Refaey, Mahmoud A E Hassan, Mohamed A Zaki, Osama A Zenhom

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Article in Fish physiology and biochemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ahmed I MehrimAnimal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Al-Mansoura, Egypt. amehrim2002@yahoo.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2598-3424
Mohamed M RefaeyAnimal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Al-Mansoura, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-0184
Mahmoud A E HassanAnimal Production Research Institute, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
Mohamed A ZakiAnimal and Fish Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Osama A ZenhomCentral Laboratory for Aquaculture Research, Abbasa, Abo-Hammad, Egypt.
Mansoura University · EGAlexandria University · EGCentral Laboratory For Agricultural Expert Systems · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ginseng (Ge) is one of the most famous and precious consumed herbal medicines around the world. Ge plant roots have many advantages regarded as important in increasing fish production. Thus, the present study was conducted to investigate the possibility of using different levels (0.0, 100, and 200 mg/kg diet) of Ge as a reproductive enhancer agent for African catfish, Clarias gariepinus males. Results revealed that fish fed 200 mg Ge/kg diet significantly (P ˂ 0.05) increased growth performance, feed efficiency, gonado-somatic index, hematological parameters, serum follicle-stimulating hormone, total antioxidant capacity, sperm quality parameters, and ultrastructure of spermatozoa, as well as led to positively improved of the histological structure of the testes tissue compared to other treatments. Based on the obtained findings, it could be concluded that the effective use of dietary Ge at a level of 200 mg/kg as a promising reproductive agent for adult African catfish males consequently led to the sustainability of aquaculture for African catfish.

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