Effect of antioxidant intake on sperm chromatin stability in healthy nonsmoking men

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 550-556

  Silver, Elana W ^a   Eskenazi, Brenda ^a,d   Evenson, Donald P ^b   Block, Gladys ^a   Young, Suzanne ^a   Wyrobek, Andrew J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA fragmentation; Fertility; Nutrition; Oxidative stress; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DENATURATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CHROMATIN; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SPERMATOZOA; VITAMIN E;

EID: 20544447575     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.04165     Document Type: Article

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