Redox regulation of human sperm function: From the physiological control of sperm capacitation to the etiology of infertility and DNA damage in the germ line

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-381

  Aitken, Robert J ^a   Curry, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE INFERTILITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; DNA DAMAGE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 78650910257     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3186     Document Type: Article

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