Seminal soluble fas relationship with oxidative stress in infertile men with varicocele

Urology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 820-823

  Tawadrous, Gamil A ^a   Aziz, Amal A ^a   Mostafa, Taymour ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; FAS ANTIGEN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD95; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84884986079     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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