Role of oxidative stress, infection and inflammation in male infertility

A Agarwal, M Rana, E Qiu, H AlBunni, AD Bui… - Andrologia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidative stress (OS), defined as an overabundance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) or a
deficiency of antioxidants, has been linked to sperm damage and male infertility. There are …

[HTML][HTML] Diet and male fertility: the impact of nutrients and antioxidants on sperm energetic metabolism

A Ferramosca, V Zara - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Diet might affect male reproductive potential, but the biochemical mechanisms involved in
the modulation of sperm quality remain poorly understood. While a Western diet is …

Preconception diet or exercise intervention in obese fathers normalizes sperm microRNA profile and metabolic syndrome in female offspring

NO McPherson, JA Owens… - American Journal of …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are increasingly prevalent across all demographics. Paternal
obesity in humans and rodents can program obesity and impair insulin sensitivity in female …

[HTML][HTML] Outdoor air pollution and sperm quality

R Lafuente, N García-Blàquez, B Jacquemin… - Fertility and sterility, 2016 - Elsevier
Exposure to air pollution has been clearly associated with a range of adverse health effects,
including reproductive toxicity, but its effects on male semen quality are still unclear. We …

[HTML][HTML] Human papillomavirus infection and fertility alteration: a systematic review

T Souho, M Benlemlih, B Bennani - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background HPV is the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection and its effect in cancer
induction is well documented. HPV infections are mostly asymptomatic, but it is unclear …

Mycoplasma and ureaplasma infection and male infertility: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

C Huang, HL Zhu, KR Xu, SY Wang, LQ Fan… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between mycoplasma and ureaplasma infection and male infertility has
been studied widely; however, results remain controversial. This meta‐analysis investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Immunological mechanisms underlying chronic pelvic pain and prostate inflammation in chronic pelvic pain syndrome

ML Breser, FC Salazar, VE Rivero… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is the most common urologic
morbidity in men younger than 50 years and is characterized by a diverse range of pain and …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity or overweight, a chronic inflammatory status in male reproductive system, leads to mice and human subfertility

W Fan, Y Xu, Y Liu, Z Zhang, L Lu, Z Ding - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Obesity is frequently accompanied with chronic inflammation over the whole body and is
always associated with symptoms that include those arising from metabolic and vascular …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 associates with semen inflammation and sperm quality impairment that reverses in the short term after disease recovery

MS Martinez, FN Ferreyra, DA Paira, VE Rivero… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: COVID-19 exerts deleterious effects on the respiratory, cardiovascular,
gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems, causing more severe disease in men than in …

Proposed key characteristics of male reproductive toxicants as an approach for organizing and evaluating mechanistic evidence in human health hazard assessments

X Arzuaga, MT Smith, CF Gibbons… - Environmental …, 2019 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Assessing chemicals for their potential to cause male reproductive toxicity
involves the evaluation of evidence obtained from experimental, epidemiological, and …