Seminal antioxidants in humans: Preoperative and postoperative evaluation of coenzyme Q10 in varicocele patients

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 428-432

  Mancini, A ^a   Milardi, D ^a   Conte, G ^a   Festa, R ^a   De Marinis, L ^a   Littarru, G P ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Coenzyme Q10; Infertility; Reactive oxygen species; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UBIDECARENONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PEROXIDATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; UBIQUINONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 23144442840     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-870232     Document Type: Article

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