Redox considerations in female reproductive function and assisted reproduction: From molecular mechanisms to health implications

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1375-1403

  Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Gupta, Sajal ^a   Sekhon, Lucky ^a   Shah, Rani ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

CELL DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; HYDROSALPINX; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 51749088818     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1964     Document Type: Review

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