What an andrologist/urologist should know about free radicals and why

Urology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-8

  Agarwal, Ashok ^a,b   Prabakaran, Sushil ^a   Allamaneni, Shyam ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DNA; FREE RADICAL; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITROUS OXIDE; PEROXY RADICAL; PEROXYNITRITE; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER; CANCER RISK; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRON; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MACROPHAGE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUTROPHIL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UROLOGY;

ANDROLOGY; FEMALE; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERMATOZOA; UROLOGY;

EID: 30344464729     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.07.012     Document Type: Review

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