DNA integrity and semen quality in men with low seminal antioxidant levels

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 665, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-36

  Shamsi, M B ^a   Venkatesh, S ^a   Tanwar, M ^a   Talwar, P ^b   Sharma, R K ^b   Dhawan, A ^c   Kumar, R ^a   Gupta, N P ^a   Malhotra, N ^a   Singh, N ^a   Mittal, S ^a   Dada, R ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Army Research and Referral Hospital   (India)

^c CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA integrity; Idiopathic infertility; Oxidative stress; Seminal antioxidants; Sperm parameters

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATALASE; COMET ASSAY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349139273     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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