Molecular biology of human male infertility: Links with aging, mitochondrial genetics, and oxidative stress?

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 345-362

  Cummins, James M ^a   Jequier, Anne M ^b   Kan, Raymond ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Free radicals; Ischemia; Male infertility; Mitochondrial DNA; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; CONTRACEPTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AGING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; STRESS; TESTIS;

EID: 0028299566     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1080370314     Document Type: Review

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