Protein modification as oxidative stress marker in normal and pathological human seminal plasma

Redox Report

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 227-232

  Piomboni, Paola ^a,b   Stendardi, Anita ^a,b   Gambera, Laura ^a,b   Tatone, Carla ^c   Coppola, Lamberto ^d   De Leo, Vincenzo ^a,b   Focarelli, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Siena Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d Medical Center Tecnomed   (Italy)

Author keywords

Leukocytospermia; Male infertility; Reactive oxygen species; Thiol oxidation; Two dimensional electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; LUMINOL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STREPTAVIDIN; THIOL;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AZOOSPERMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84867687477     PISSN: 13510002     EISSN: 17432928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1351000212Y.0000000014     Document Type: Article

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