Antioxidant Capacity in Seminal Plasma of Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassemic Patients

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 131-134

  Carpino, Amalia ^a   Tarantino, P ^a   Rago, V ^a   De Sanctis, V ^b   Siciliano, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Catalase; Human semen; Iron overload; Superoxide dismutase; Thalassemia major; Total antioxidant status

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; FERRITIN; FREE RADICAL; IRON; LIPID PEROXIDE; MALONALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON OVERLOAD; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMEN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 1842481320     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-817821     Document Type: Article

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