Andrology: Placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over trial of glutathione therapy in male infertility

Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 1657-1662

  Lenzi, A ^a   Culasso, F ^a,b   Gandini, L ^a   Lombardo, F ^a   Dondero, F ^a  

^a V Clinica Medica ^*  (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer assisted sperm motility analysis; Glutathione; Male infertility; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0027492888     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137909     Document Type: Article

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