Impact of seminal trace element and glutathione levels on semen quality of Tunisian infertile men

BMC Urology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Atig, Fatma ^a,c   Raffa, Monia ^b   Habib, Ben Ali ^a   Kerkeni, Abdelhamid ^b   Saad, Ali ^a   Ajina, Mounir ^a  

^a University Farhat Hached Hospital   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^c University Teaching Hospital   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Idiopathic oligoasthenoteratozoospermia; Male infertility; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Seminal plasma; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SELENIUM; ZINC; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM; STATISTICS; TUNISIA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELENIUM; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM MOTILITY; TRACE ELEMENTS; TUNISIA; YOUNG ADULT; ZINC;

EID: 84860840665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-12-6     Document Type: Article

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