BACKGROUND Oxidative DNA damage is associated with male infertility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the oxidative DNA damage of sperm cells and blood leukocytes and to determine the levels of MDA and NO levels in seminal and blood plasma of idiopathic infertile men. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study enrolled 52 patients, including 30 infertile and 22 fertile men. MDA, NO, and 8-OHdG/106dG w...

We explored the relationship between sperm chromatin integrity, hormone levels, seminal plasma total antioxidant capacity (TAC), and routine sperm parameters in men with male factor (MF, n = 81) and non-male factor (NMF, n = 52) infertility. Semen and blood were collected and examined from men undergoing evaluation for infertility in the Avicenna Infertility Clinic. We have examined each patien...

OBJECTIVE Determine whether testicular sperm extractions and pregnancy outcomes are influenced by male and female infertility diagnoses, location of surgical center and time to cryopreservation. PATIENTS One hundred and thirty men undergoing testicular sperm extraction and 76 couples undergoing 123 in vitro fertilization cycles with testicular sperm. OUTCOME MEASURES Successful sperm recove...

In this study, quantitive characteristics and chemical composition of in roach (Rutilus rutilus caspicus) sperm were investigated. Sperm traits included sperm movement duration, percentage of motile spermatozoa, sperm density, spermatocrit and sperm volume. Some seminal plasma characteristics (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and chloride) were investigated. In addition, some metabolites o...

the latest micromanipulative technique, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi), has been very successful in cases of severe male factor infertility. the main objective of this study is to report the results of our first experience with icsi in cases of male factor infertility, as well as patients who had failed their previous cycles with conventional in vitro fertilization (ivf). normal fertil...

BACKGROUND Older men tend to have poorer semen quality and are generally at higher risks for infertility and abnormal reproductive outcomes. METHODS We employed proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE, 3 MeV proton beam) to investigate the concentrations of zinc, copper, calcium, sulfur, chlorine, potassium, titanium, iron and nickel in washed sperm and seminal plasma from non-smoking groups of 1...

Introduction and Aim: Idiopathic infertility accounts for at least 30% of all cases infertility, oxidative stress has been identified as a novel developing factor in idiopathic male infertility. Oxidative occurs when antioxidant defense mechanisms are outmatched by the creation reactive oxygen species (ROS). The purpose this research was to examine impact enzymatic antioxidants (catalase supero...

background: momordica charantia (m. charantia) seed has been supposed to have an antifertility property but mechanisms underlying the infertility effect have not been investigated. objective: we investigated the antifertility effect of m. charantia ethanol seed extracts on reproductive toxicology and seminal and plasma testosterone in male wistar rats. materials and methods: the control group (...

we examined the demographic characteristics of couples, ovarian response and sperm quality to determine the predictors of clinical fertilization in ivf cycles. a descriptive and analytic study was conducted using data and biologic specimens obtained fatemeh-alzahra of babol infertility center from 2004 to 2005. only data from 315 women who had medical indication for conventional ivf treatment w...

Chlamydia trachomatis infection is considered to be one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. It is currently unclear whether chlamydial infection causes pathological conditions of the male accessory glands has consequences for male infertility. To determine the frequency of C. trachomatis Infection among infertile men with leukocytospermia using different diagnostic techniques such...