Which efforts towards conservative treatment of male infertility will be successful? Reactive oxygen species, antioxidants, and sperm phospholipids

Andrologia

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 295-296

  Comhaire, F ^a   Zalata, A ^b   Christophe, A ^a   Mahmoud, A ^a   Depuydt, C ^a   Dhooge, W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOL; TAMOXIFEN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032867532     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.1999.00272.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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