Objectives: Methionine is known as an essential amino acid in mammals. Consuming excessive amounts of methionine has toxic effects. This study aimed at evaluating the histomorphometric and histopathologic changes of ovaries after methionine administration during follicle formation.
Material And Methods: A total of 60 newborn female rats born under similar conditions were selected and randomly assigned into three groups including control, recipients of 50 and 200 mg/kg body weight of methionine for 5 days. On day 120, all 60 female rats were euthanized and the whole left ovary of each animal was taken in order to count the number of primordial, primary, secondary, antral, atretic follicles, as well as corpora lutea and also to conduct histopathologic study.
Results: According to the results, the 50 mg/kg methionine did not significantly change the number of primordial follicles compared to the control group but the 200 mg/kg dose significantly decreased the number of primordial follicles. There were no significant differences between the groups in the number of other types of follicles and also in the number of corpora lutea. There was no histopathological lesion in the groups.
Conclusions: It seems that the high dose of methionine could exacerbate apoptosis of the primordial ovarian follicle during the follicle assembly process. However, the remaining were enough to form later stages of follicles after puberty.
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