Male fertility is reduced by chronic intermittent hypoxia mimicking sleep apnea in mice

Sleep

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1757-1765

  Torres, Marta ^a,b   Laguna Barraza, Ricardo ^c   Dalmases, Mireia ^a,b   Calle, Alexandra ^c   Pericuesta, Eva ^c   Montserrat, Josep M ^a,b,d   Navajas, Daniel ^a,b,e   Gutierrez Adan, Alfonso ^c   Farré, Ramon ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Male fertility; Obstructive sleep apnea; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 1; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BREEDING; C57BL MOUSE; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BREEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SPERM MOTILITY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS;

EID: 84908406333     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.4166     Document Type: Article

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