Male fertility and varicocoele: Role of immune factors

Andrology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-58

  Bozhedomov, V A ^a,b,c   Lipatova, N A ^b   Rokhlikov, I M ^b   Alexeev, R A ^b   Ushakova, I V ^a   Sukhikh, G T ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER OF OBSTETRICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

^c Federal State Budget Inst Polyclinic No 1 of the Business Administration   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Antisperm antibodies; Male infertility; Oxidative stress; Sperm DNA fragmentation; Varicocoele

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORCHITIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMIOGRAM; TESTIS INJURY; VARICOCELE; VEIN DILATATION;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANTISPERM ANTIBODIES; MALE INFERTILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERM DNA FRAGMENTATION; VARICOCOELE;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHITIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890843898     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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