Oral antioxidant treatment partly improves integrity of human sperm DNA in infertile grade i varicocele patients

Human Fertility

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 225-229

  Gual Frau, Josep ^a   Abad, Carlos ^a   Amengual, María J ^a   Hannaoui, Naim ^a   Checa, Miguel A ^b,c   Ribas Maynou, Jordi ^b   Lozano, Iris ^b   Nikolaou, Alexandros ^b   Benet, Jordi ^b   García Peiró, Agustín ^b   Prats, Juan ^a  

^a PARC TAULÍ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Institut Clinica Corachan   (Spain)

Author keywords

antioxidants; chromatin dispersion; L carnitine; Male factor infertility; sperm; sperm DNA; varicocele

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CARNITINE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DNA; MULTIVITAMIN; SELENIUM; UBIDECARENONE; ZINC; UBIQUINONE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CARNITINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; UBIQUINONE; VARICOCELE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; VITAMIN E; ZINC;

EID: 84942327339     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2015.1050462     Document Type: Article

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