Infections in the male genital tract and reactive oxygen species

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 399-420

  Ochsendorf, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lipid peroxidation; Male infertility; Oxidative stress; Oxygen free radicals; Sperm dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CYTOKINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACROSOME REACTION; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NEUTROPHIL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REVIEW; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TIME;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CATIONS; CYTOKINES; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032712606     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/5.5.399     Document Type: Review

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