Melatonin therapy adds extra benefit to varicecelectomy in terms of sperm parameters, hormonal profile and total antioxidant capacity: A placebo-controlled, double-blind trial

Andrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Lu, X L ^a   Liu, J J ^b   Li, J T ^a   Yang, Q A ^c   Zhang, J M ^c  

^a JINAN CENTRAL HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hospital affiliated to Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Materia Medica   (China)

^c Shandong Xiehe University   (China)

Author keywords

infertility; melatonin; semen analysis; varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; ANTIOXIDANT; INHIBIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; BLOOD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INHIBINS; MALE; MELATONIN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 85046545997     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.13033     Document Type: Article

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