Hormonal regulation of total antioxidant capacity in seminal plasma

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 534-540

  Mancini, Antonio ^a,b   Festa, Roberto ^a   Silvestrini, Andrea ^a   Nicolotti, Nicola ^a   Di Donna, Vincenzo ^a   La Torre, Giuseppe ^a   Pontecorvi, Alfredo ^a   Meucci, Elisabetta ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant capacity; Male infertility; Oxidative stress; Prolactin; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; LIOTHYRONINE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEMINAL PLASMA; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROLACTIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONES; VARICOCELE;

EID: 70349507641     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.108.006148     Document Type: Article

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