Seminal plasma reactive oxygen species-antioxidants relationship with varicocele grade

Andrologia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-69

  Mostafa, T ^a   Anis, T ^a   El Nashar, A ^a   Imam, H ^b   Osman, I ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Medical Biochemistry Department   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Male infertility; Oxidative stress; ROS; Semen; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MALONALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEMINAL PLASMA; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855410060     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2010.01111.x     Document Type: Article

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