Reactive oxygen species and sperm DNA damage in infertile men presenting with low level leukocytospermia

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Agarwal, Ashok ^a,c   Mulgund, Aditi ^a   Alshahrani, Saad ^a,b   Assidi, Mourad ^c   Abuzenadah, Adel M ^c   Sharma, Rakesh ^a   Sabanegh, Edmund ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PRINCE SATTAM BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

DNA fragmentation; Low leukocytospermia; Male infertility; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW LEVEL LEUKOCYTOSPERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM QUALITY; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADULT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84924214166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-12-126     Document Type: Article

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