Reactive oxygen species, total antioxidant concentration of seminal plasma and their effect on sperm parameters and outcome of IVF/ICSI patients

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 277, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 515-526

  Hammadeh, M E ^a   Al Hasani, S ^b   Rosenbaum, P ^a   Schmidt, W ^a   Fischer Hammadeh, C ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ICSI; IVF; ROS; Spermatozoa; TAS

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANTIOXIDANT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENATURATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NICK END LABELING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAINING;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN; SPERM MATURATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 42749090573     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-007-0507-1     Document Type: Article

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