ReviewGeroScience2025
A review of antioxidant strategies to improve reproduction in aging male broiler breeders.
Review in GeroScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The promise of pectic oligosaccharides as a novel sustainable additive in poultry production: A systematic review.Poultry science · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of dendrobium nobile polysaccharide on reproductive performance, hormone levels, antioxidant capacity, and testicular metabolism of aged roosters.Poultry science · 2026Article
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- Oral administration with silkworm pupae and fingerroot extracts affects semen quality, fertility rate, testicular function, and testosterone level in Thai native roosters.Tropical animal health and production · 2026Article
- Effects of dietary supplementation with polyphenolic extracts from Lasia spinosa Thw. roots on reproductive performance in Guangxi Ma Roosters.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Improvement of cryopreserved rooster semen quality by combined application of DMF and ZnO NPs.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Quercetin upregulates steroid hormone biosynthesis to enhance reproductive performance in roosters.Poultry science · 2026Article
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Abstract
As only 10% of the broiler breeder flock is roosters, their fertility is very important. The rooster sperm plasma membrane has high concentrations of polyunsaturated fatty acids that are sensitive to oxidative stress. Lipid peroxidation can change membrane structure, permeability, and fluidity, adversely affecting the acrosome reaction and fertility. Aging roosters have decreases in sexual behavior, serum androgen concentrations, sperm quantity and quality, and fertility. Low fertility in aging roosters is attributed to an imbalanced testicular oxidant-antioxidant system, with increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) damaging spermatogenic epithelium. However, antioxidant components can enhance antioxidant defenses in aging broiler breeder roosters. Protection against oxidative damage, particularly in the testes, improves reproductive hormone concentrations, testicular histology, sperm membrane function, and mitochondrial activity and thereby improves semen volume, sperm concentration, viability, motility, and sperm polyunsaturated fatty acid content, sperm-egg penetration, fertility, and reproductive performance. This review summarizes antioxidants that could improve fertility and reproductive performance and delay or prevent age-related declines in broiler breeder roosters, with benefits for poultry production.
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