Oxidative stress in an assisted reproductive techniques setting

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 503-512

  Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Said, Tamer M ^a   Bedaiwy, Mohamed A ^b   Banerjee, Jashoman ^a   Alvarez, Juan G ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; embryo; oocyte oxidative stress; reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIPID; PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ASTHENOSPERMIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; EJACULATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; GERM CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIPID DEGRADATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SEMINAL PLASMA; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOZOON; THAWING;

EMBRYO; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33748259435     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.02.088     Document Type: Review

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