The effects of Methenolone Enanthate Supplement with Exercise on Rats’ bones

Abstract

It is known that anabolic steroids are used by athletes to increase their performance and cause many health problems. Thisstudy aims to analyze the effects of methenolone enanthate supplement with exercise on rats’ bones. The study was conductedwith 28 28-day-old Wistar male rats obtained from the Chair of the Experimental Medicine Research and Application Center ofSelcuk University. The rats were allocated into four groups: C (control, n:6), E (exercise, n:7), M (methenolone enanthate, n:7)and ME (methenolone enanthate+exercise, n:8). The required doses were arranged weekly depending on the rats’ live weightfor the groups given methenolone enanthate. The rats’ front and back extremity bones were dissected, and the humerus andfemur bones were dried. Each bone’s length, corpus thickness, cortex thickness and medullary diameter points weredetermined. The results were presented as mean±SD. ANOVA and Duncan's test were used for inter-group comparison of thedata. The threshold for statistical significance was p