Medical perspective in testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury (Review)

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2115-2122

  Arena, Salvatore ^a   Iacona, Roberta ^b   Antonuccio, Pietro ^a   Russo, Tiziana ^a   Salvo, Vincenzo ^a   Gitto, Eloisa ^a   Impellizzeri, Pietro ^a   Romeo, Carmelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Calcium channel blocker; Interaction with neutrophils; Ischemia reperfusion injury; Modulators of inflammation; Phytotherapy; Testicular torsion

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CAFFEIC ACID PHENETHYL ESTER; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; CASPASE; CONTINUOUS ERYTHROPOIESIS RECEPTOR ACTIVATOR; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; EBSELEN; ENALAPRIL; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; LOSARTAN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PRASTERONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; ROSIGLITAZONE; SIVELESTAT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; THIOCTIC ACID; THYMOQUINONE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT; VERAPAMIL; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMLODIPINE; BOSENTA; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; MELATONIN; MORPHINE; NIFEDIPINE; NORPHENAZONE; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PROPOFOL; RAXOFELAST; SELENIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZOFENOPRIL;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CELL DAMAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY; HYPOTHERMIA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS TORSION; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE PERFUSION; DRUG INTERACTION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPHIL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; TESTICULAR ISCHEMIA;

EID: 85031809937     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2017.4289     Document Type: Review

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