Antioxidant cosupplementation therapy with vitamin C, vitamin E, and coenzyme Q10 in patients with oligoasthenozoospermia

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-4

  Kobori, Yoshitomo ^a   Ota, Shigeyuki ^a   Sato, Ryo ^a   Yagi, Hiroshi ^a   Soh, Shigehiro ^a   Arai, Gaku ^a   Okada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coenzyme Q10; Male infertility; Vitamin C; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; UBIDECARENONE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ASTHENOSPERMIA; DRUG EFFICACY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMIOGRAM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UBIQUINONE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 84905184425     PISSN: 11243562     EISSN: 22824197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2014.1.1     Document Type: Article

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