Relationship between seminal white blood cell counts and oxidative stress in men treated at an infertility clinic

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 575-583

  Sharma, Rakesh K ^a   Pasqualotto, Fabio F ^a   Nelson, David R ^b   Thomas, Anthony J ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a Center for Female Pelvic Medicine and Surgery Urology Institute   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endtz test; Leukocytospermia; Male infertility; Reactive oxygen species; Semen

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOCYTOSPERMIA; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AREA UNDER CURVE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEMEN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034941928     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2001.tb02217.x     Document Type: Article

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