Schistosomiasis-induced male infertility

ACUPUNCTURE AND MALE INFERTILITY About male infertility

The clinical definition of male infertility is the presence of abnormal semen parameters in the male partner of a couple who have been unable to conceive after 1 year of unprotected intercourse (Dohle 2010). The World Health Organization defines male factor infertility as the presence of one or more abnormalities in the semen analysis, or the presence of inadequate sexual or ejaculatory functio...

Incidence of sulphasalazine-induced male infertility.

Sperm analysis of 21 patients taking sulphasalazine for inflammatory bowel disease revealed that 86% had abnormal semen analysis and 72% had oligospermia.

Ethanol-Induced Male Infertility: Impairment of Spermatozoa1

0022-3565/53/2252-0479$02.OO/O THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY ANt) EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS Copyright c 1983 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Ethanol-Induced Male Infertility: Impairment of Spermatozoa1 ROBERT A. ANDERSON, JR., BRIAN R. WILLIS, CHRISTINE OSWALD2 and LOURENS J. D. ZANEVELD Departments of Physiology and Biophysics (R.A.A., CO., L.J.D.Z.), Anato...

Oxidative stress & male infertility.

The male factor is considered a major contributory factor to infertility. Apart from the conventional causes for male infertility such as varicocoele, cryptorchidism, infections, obstructive lesions, cystic fibrosis, trauma, and tumours, a new and important cause has been identified: oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is a result of the imbalance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antiox...

Idiopathic Male Infertility