Advanced Paternal Age and Sperm DNA Fragmentation: A Systematic Review

[Association of age with sperm DNA fragmentation].

BACKGROUND There is an association between aging ana an increased number of sperms with alterations in nuclear DNA. AIM To study the association between age and fragmentation of sperm DNA. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty two volunteers provided semen for analysis. These were separated in a group aged less than forty years and a second group aged more than forty years. Sperm DNA fragmentation was...

Sperm DNA fragmentation

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. It is an honour to write the foreword to this focused issue of TAU on sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF). From my time as a first generation embryologist in the early days at the University of Cambridge with Professor Robert Edwards and in my current role at the London Women’s Clinic, I have become acutely aware of the num...

Sperm DNA fragmentation testing

The editors of this book, Drs. Ashok Agarwal, Ahmad Majzoub, Chak-Lam Cho and Sandro Esteves, are to be congratulated for bringing together an extensive tome on the evaluation and management of sperm DNA fragmentation. The perspectives from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the rest of the world provide an interesting snapshot into management of the unique phenomenon of sperm DNA d...

Antioxidants for elevated sperm DNA fragmentation: a mini review

Understanding sperm DNA fragmentation

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. We greatly value the commentary by Dr. Gosalvez on the “Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: practice recommendations based on clinical scenarios” by Agarwal et al. (1). The author initiated his well-written note with an overview of the structural and physiologic significance of sperm DNA on male repro...