Insight into oxidative stress in varicocele-associated male infertility: Part 2

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-37

  Hamada, Alaa ^a   Esteves, Sandro C ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Androfert   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCARNITINE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOTIN; CALCIUM; CARNITINE; CINNOXICAM; COPPER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ERGOCALCIFEROL; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MALONALDEHYDE; MANGANESE; MONOXERUTIN; NICOTINAMIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIAMINE; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TESTIS BIOPSY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871919332     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2012.198     Document Type: Review

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