A prospective double-blind randomized placebo-controlled study of the effect of saffron (Crocus sativus Linn.) on semen parameters and seminal plasma antioxidant capacity in infertile men with idiopathic oligoasthenoteratozoospermia

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 508-516

  Safarinejad, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Shafiei, Nayyer ^a   Safarinejad, Shiva ^a  

^a Private Practice of Urology and Andrology   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crocus sativus; infertility; male factor; saffron; treatment

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLACEBO; SAFFRON EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS SATIVUS; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOMANIA; IDIOPATHIC OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; INCREASED APPETITE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NAUSEA; OLIGOSPERMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFFRON; SEDATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; CROCUS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PLACEBOS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN;

CROCUS SATIVUS;

EID: 79953192182     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3294     Document Type: Article

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