Relationship of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids with semen characteristics, and anti-oxidant status of seminal plasma: A comparison between fertile and infertile men

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-105

  Safarinejad, Mohammad Reza ^a   Hosseini, Seyyed Yousof ^a   Dadkhah, Farid ^a   Asgari, Majid Ali ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Infertility; Omega 3 fatty acids; Omega 6 fatty acids; Seminal plasma; Sperm parameters

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; LIPID COMPOSITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATALASE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LINOLEIC ACID; MALE; PLASMA; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 75949121553     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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