Is antioxidant therapy a promising strategy to improve human reproduction?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1415-1416

  Tarín, Juan J ^a   Brines, Juan ^a   Cano, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CLOMIFENE; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; RETINOID DERIVATIVE; RETINOL;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANOVULATION; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG POTENTIATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE;

EID: 0032086213     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.6.1415     Document Type: Short Survey

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