Age-Related Increase of Reactive Oxygen Species in Neat Semen in Healthy Fertile Men

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 490-494

  Cocuzza, Marcello ^a,b   Athayde, Kelly S ^a,b   Agarwal, Ashok ^b   Sharma, Rakesh ^b   Pagani, Rodrigo ^a   Lucon, Antonio M ^a   Srougi, Miguel ^a   Hallak, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEN'S HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; VASECTOMY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN;

EID: 40649097305     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.041     Document Type: Article

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