Vitamin C and vitamin E supplementation reduce oxidative stress-induced embryo toxicity and improve the blastocyst development rate

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1272-1277

  Wang, Xia ^a,b   Falcone, Tommaso ^a,b   Attaran, Marjan ^a,b   Goldberg, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Agarwal, Ashok ^a,b   Sharma, Rakesh K ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Center for Advanced Research in Human Reproduction Infertility and Sexual Function   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Blastocyst development; Embryo; Leukocytes; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; LEUKOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0036905484     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04236-X     Document Type: Article

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