Background Use of cellular phones emitting radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) has been increased exponentially and become a part of everyday life. This study aimed to investigate the effects of in vitro RF-EMF exposure emitted from cellular phones on sperm motility index, sperm DNA fragmentation and seminal clusterin (CLU) gene expression. MaterialsAndMethods In this prospective stud...

or Hets and WT (Table 1) for testicular weights, a measure of total sperm production. However, in analyses of a minimum of 200 sperm per animal, gross motility (80% reduced) and progressive motility (91% reduced) were significantly (P < 0.001; Table 1) impaired in null sperm, compared to WT. The Het sperm showed 35% and 32% decrease (P < 0.001) in gross and progressive motility (P < 0.001), com...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of myo-inositol in combination with minerals and vitamin on sperm motility in patients affected by asthenozoospermia as index of Bulgarian population. PATIENTS AND METHODS One-hundred-nine men aged between 18 and 50 years with reduced sperm motility identified by routine semen analysis were enrolled in this study. After excluding any u...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of coenzyme Q(10) treatment in improving semen quality in men with idiopathic infertility. DESIGN Placebo-controlled, double-blind randomized trial. SETTING Andrology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. PATIENT(S) Sixty infertile patients (27-39 years of age) with the following baseline sperm selection cri...

NADþ-dependent Isocitrate Dehydrogenase (NADþ-IDH) could be one of the cell phone radiation targets. Enzyme activity alteration may lead to decline in sperm motility during radio-frequency electromagnetic waves (RF-EMW) exposure. The current case control study aimed to investigate the possible relationship between mitochondrial NADþ-IDH activity in human seminal plasma and sperm motility among ...

OBJECTIVE To examine clinical and laboratory variables to determine which, if any, predict improved semen parameters and pregnancy after varicocelectomy. METHODS Surgical logs were reviewed for men who underwent varicocele ligation for a fertility concern. Clinical, demographic, and laboratory data was obtained through medical chart review and paired with postoperative reproductive outcomes o...

There is concern in the beef industry that selecting bulls for feed efficiency based on residual feed intake (RFI) may have a negative impact on bull reproductive performance and fertility. Here we investigated the impact of selection of bulls for low RFI on breeding soundness evaluation (BSE), reproductive performance, and fertility of bulls under natural service in multisire mating groups on ...

Asthenozoospermia (AZS), characterized by grade A + B sperm motility (as in World Health Organization Guidelines) < or =50% or A <25% in fresh ejaculate, may exist as an isolated disorder, in combination with other sperm anomalies or as part of syndromic association. The majority of syndromic patients can be ascribed to mutations in dynein genes, while, to date, no genes have been described to ...

Background: A high level of sperm chromatin decondensation results in loss DNA quality and it is associated with poor embryonic prognosis Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). This had lead to introduction compaction testing assessment clinical male infertility. Toluidine blue assay one most commonly used tests measure research studies also routine use. So the objective our study was assess b...