Escin improves sperm quality in male patients with varicocele-associated infertility

Phytomedicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 192-196

  Fang, Yujiang ^a,b   Zhao, Lei ^c   Yan, Feng ^d   Xia, Xiaoyan ^e   Xu, Donghui ^c   Cui, Xijun ^f  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^c QIQIHAR MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WANNAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f People's Hospital of Ningjin   (China)

Author keywords

Aesculus hippocastanum; Escin; Infertility; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

AESCUVEN FORTE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CLOMIFENE; ESCIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHINESE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STOMACH IRRITATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VARICOCELE; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING;

ADULT; AESCULUS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; ESCIN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEEDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM;

EID: 75249099169     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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