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Objective:To investigate the effects ofDracaena arborea(D. arborea) on the sexual behavior parameters in experienced type-1 diabetic rats.Methods:Aqueous and ethanol(100 and500 mg/kg respectively) extracts of dried root barks ofD. arborea, sildenafil citrate(1.44 mg/kg), trimethylamine-N-oxide(TMAO,20 mg/kg) and distilled water(10 mL/kg) were orally administered to4 weeks streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.Mount latency and frequency (ML,MF), intromission latency and frequency(IL,IF) and post-ejaculatory interval(PEI) were measured by ejaculatory series during90 min once a week for4 weeks.Glycemia was determined at the beginning and at the end of the treatment.Results:D. arborea did not show any major antihyperglycemic effects.Compared to the control group, a significant(P<0.05-0.001) increase inMF andIF was noticed in rats treated with sildenafil citrate(89.71% and90.07% respectively), aqueous(500 mg/kg,88.08% and88.74% respectively) and ethanol(100 mg/kg;89.53% and89.17 respectively) extracts ofD. arborea after two weeks(series1) of treatment.ML,IL andPEI were significantly(P<0.05-0.001) decreased after4 weeks of daily treatment [sildenafil citrate(96.31, 96.31% and34.98%), andD. arborea aqueous500 mg/kg(94.33,94.33% and66.60%) and ethanol extracts100 mg/kg(96.98,97.08% and64.26%)].Conclusions:These aphrodisiac potentials of D. arborea in experienced diabetic rats could be due to the antioxidant and androgenic properties of phenols, flavonoids, saponins and sterols revealed in the plant extracts.