Severe antioxidase deficiency in human semen samples with pathological spermiogram parameters

Andrologia

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-83

  Miesel, R ^a   Jedrzejczak, P ^b   Sanocka, D ^c   Kurpisz, M K ^c  

^a DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

^b Medical School   (Poland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

antioxidants; human; infertility; spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA;

EID: 0030945042     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.1997.tb00467.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Aitken RJ , Clarkson JS, Fishel S (1989) Generation of reactive oxygen species, lipid peroxidation and human sperm function. Biol Reprod 40:183-197.
2. Aitken RJ, Buckingham DW, West KM (1992) Reactive oxygen species and human spermatozoa: analysis of the cellular mechanisms involved in luminol- and lucigenin-dependent chemiluminescence. J Cell Physiol 151:466-477.
3. Alvarez JG, Storey BT (1989) Role of glutathione peroxidase in protecting mammalian spermatozoa from loss of motility caused by spontaneous lipid peroxidation. Gamete Res 23:77-90.
4. Alvarez JG, Touchstone JC, Blasco L, Storey BT (1987) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation and production of hydrogen peroxide and superoxide in human spermatozoa. Superoxide dismutase as major enzyme protectant against oxygen toxicity. J Androl 8:338-348.
5. Halliwell B (1992) Drug antioxidant effects. A basis for drug selection? Drugs 42:569-605.
6. Holland MK, Storey BT (1981) Oxygen metabolism of mammalian spermatozoa. Generation of hydrogen peroxide by rabbit epididymal spermatozoa. Biochem J 198:273-280.
7. Iwasaki A, Gagnon C (1992) Formation of reactive oxygen species in spermatozoa of infertile patients. Fertil Steril 57:409-416.
8. Jeulin C, Soufir JC, Weber P, Laval-Martin D, Calvayrac R (1989) Catalase activity in human spermatozoa and seminal plasma. Gamete Res 24:185-196.
9. Keyhani E, Storey BT (1973) Energy conservation capacity and morphological integrity of mitochondria in hypotonically treated rabbit epididymal sperm. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 305:557-569.
10. Kobayashi T, Miyazaki T, Natori M, Nozawa S (1991) Protective role of superoxide dismutase in human sperm motility: superoxide dismutase activity and lipid peroxide in human seminal plasma and spermatozoa. Hum Reprod 6:987-991.
11. Kovalski NN, Lamirande E, Gagnon C (1992) Reactive oxygen species generaled by human neutrophils inhibit sperm motility: protective effect of seminal plasma and scavengers. Fertil Steril 58:809-816.
12. Menella MRF, Jones R (1980) Properties of spermatozoal superoxide dismutase and lack of involvement of superoxides in metals ion-catalyzed lipid peroxidation reactions in semen. Biochem J 191:289-297.
13. Miesel R, Zuber M (1993) Copper-dependent antioxidase defenses in inflammatory and autoimmune rheumaticdiseases. Inflammation 17:286-295.
14. 2 superoxide dismutase on activated polymorphonuclear leucocytes. Inflammation 14:409-419.
15. Miesel R, Jȩdrzejczak P, Kurpisz M (1993) Oxidative stress during the interaction of gametes. Biol Reprod 49:918-923.
16. Rao B, Soufir JC, Martin M, David G (1989) Lipid peroxidation in human spermatozoa as related to midpiece abnormalities and motility. Gamete Res 24:127-134.
17. Schreck R, Albermann K, Bauerle P (1992) Nuclear factor kB: an oxidative stress responsive transcription factor of eukaryotic cells. Free Rad Res Commun 17:21-237.
18. Stocker R, Frei BC (1991) Endogenous antioxidant defences in human blood plasma. In: Oxidative stress, oxidants and antioxidants. Sies H (ed) Academic Press, London, pp 213-244.
19. Tennant RW, Harris CC, Kaufman DG, Nesnow S, Slaga TJ, Stevenson DE, Trump BF (1993) Molecular mechanisms of genetic deregulation in toxicity and carcinogenesis. Mol Carcinog 7:67-72.
20. Weser U, Miesel R, Hartmann HJ, Heizmann W (1989) Mummified enzymes. Nature 341:696.
21. World Health Organization (1992) Laboratory manual for the examination of human semen and sperm-cervical mucus interaction. Cambridge University Press, London-New York-Melbourne.