A. Agarwal et al. (eds.), Studies on Men’s Health and Fertility, Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice, DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-776-7_24, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Male infertility affects 40% of infertile couples in the USA and may be attributed to conditions such as varicocele, leukocytospermia, infection, and idiopathic infertility. Such ...

Oxidative stress contributes to defective spermatogenesis and the poor quality of sperm associated with idiopathic male factor infertility. The aim of this study was to review the current literature on the effects of various types of antioxidant supplements in patients to improve fertilization and pregnancy rates in subfertile males with idiopathic oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (iOAT). Review of...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding single stranded RNA molecules that are physiologically produced in eukaryotic cells to regulate or mostly down-regulate genes by pairing with their complementary base-sequence in related mRNA molecules in the cytoplasm. It has been reported that other than its function in many physiological cell processes, dysregulation of miRNAs plays a role in the devel...

Genetic susceptibility has a prominent role in infertility. This study was proposed the association of Deleted in Azoospermia-Like (DAZL) A386G gene transition with male infertility in an Iranian population which followed by a meta-analysis in Asian population. In the case-control study we collected blood samples from 100 idiopathic infertile and 100 healthy fertile men. After DNA extraction, D...