Effect of pentoxifylline on semen parameters, reproductive hormones, and seminal plasma antioxidant capacity in men with idiopathic infertility: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-328

  Safarinejad, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a Private Practice of Urology and Andrology   (Iran)

Author keywords

Infertility; Male factor; Pentoxifylline; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANDROGEN; CARNITINE; CATALASE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PLACEBO; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPEPSIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NAUSEA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 79959713002     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: 15732584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-010-9826-4     Document Type: Article

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