Effects of indoor air purification by an air cleaning system (Koala technology) on semen parameters in male factor infertility: results of a pilot study.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the serum Folic Acid (FA) levels in patients with Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and healthy controls and whether levels vary with its severity. The study was carried out on 77 sexually active individuals, out of which 41 complained of ED and 36 were apparently normal. Patients were...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Gupta A,Priyadarshi S,Vyas N,Sharma G,Swain PK

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a transmembrane glycoprotein with glutamate carboxypeptidase activity. However, its precise function in the prostate, prostasomes and seminal plasma with regard to male fertility remains unknown. This study was conducted to investigate the seminal plasma PSMA levels in fert...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Arslan MA,Avcı B,Tunçel ÖK,Asci R

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the main lectin receptors of boar spermatozoa were analyzed by concanavalin A and Ricinus communis agglutinin-120 visualized for light microscopy by enzymatic amplification with 3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole. The lectin binding sites of the acrosomal membranes in addition to the plasma membrane were dis...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Töpfer-Petersen E,Januschke E,Schmoeckel C,Schill WB

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor concentrations and amounts per ejaculate were determined in 162 infertile men and in a control group of 50 pregnancy-proven fertile men. No differences were found between those groups. The group of infertile patients was divided into sub-groups according to their sperm density. EGF values in th...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Delgado SR,Ramirez K,Mallea E

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase was purified to apparent homogeneity from human testis by DEAE cellulose, acetone, precipitation, fractionation by ammonium sulphate, Sephacryl S-200 chromatography, Q-Sepharose chromatography and S-Sepharose chromatography following solubilization of the enzyme by Triton X-100. The purif...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Yoshida K,Arai K,Kobayashi N,Saitoh H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a highly sensitive radioimmunoassay (RIA) of estramustine binding protein (EMBP) with the antibody raised against rat-EMBP, the concentration of EMBP in human benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) tissue was evaluated. Using mechanical separation procedure, EMBP was found significantly higher in the epithelium (10....

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Shiina H,Mizutani M,Ishibe T

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of vasectomy on seminal viscosity, volume and pH have been investigated in freshly emitted semen of 21 healthy men before operation and three months later. Viscosity and the pH range were decreased significantly, but the decrease of the seminal volume was not significant. Reasons of changes have been discu...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Nikkanen V

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostatitis has been associated with abnormal semen parameters and may be the cause of infertility in some patients. Sperm antibodies and impaired sperm motility have been observed in the semen of patients with prostatitis. More recently, seminal oxidative stress has been detected in patients with prostatitis or acces...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Potts JM,Pasqualotto FF

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of Sertoli and pre-meiotic germ cells in the developing rabbit testis were investigated as an initial step in determining the physiological meaning of the control of cell number in the testis by apoptosis. Sections were stained immunohistochemically for the detection of apoptotic cells and counterstained w...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Hayashi T,Kageyama Y,Ishizaka K,Kihara K,Oshima H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dicentric Y chromosome is the most common cytogenetically visible structural abnormality of Y chromosome. The sites of break and fusion of dicentric Y are variable, but break and fusion at Yq12 (proximal to the pseudoautosomal region 2/PAR 2) is very rare. Dicentric Y chromosome is unstable during cell division an...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Kumar P,Jain M,Kalsi AK,Halder A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system may play an important role in primary premature ejaculation (PPE), and dapoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, plays a role in its treatment. We evaluated the success of dapoxetine treatment in PPE patients with a penile sympathetic skin response (PSSR). Of...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Kati B,Ay H

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seminal plasma of 31 patients were examined for the presence of sperm antibodies and for inhibitory properties on the transformation rates of donor lymphocytes cultured in vitro. Twenty five (80%) of the men revealed apart from fertile semen, no sperm antibody activities while six (20%) patients showed high sperma...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Franken DR,Slabber CF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several drugs have been used to stimulate human sperm motility, including 3-deoxy-adenosine, caffeine, and pentoxifylline. Pentoxifylline is an inhibitor of the phosphodiesterase and may stimulate sperm motility by increasing the intracellular levels of cAMP. In this study we have evaluated the effect of pentoxifyllin...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Morales P,Llanos M,Yovich JL,Cummins JM,Vigil P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual dysfunction is more prevalent in psychotic patients than in the nonpsychotic population. The objective of this study was to identify correlations between serum prolactin levels, testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction in patients with first-episode psychosis (n = 40) compared to age-matched healthy control...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Gaber HD,El-Beeh KAM,Abd Al-Naser FAW,Hosny A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has revolutionised the treatment of human infertility, giving hope to the patients previously considered incapable of establishing pregnancy. While semen analysis is performed to access whether a sample has an adequate number of viable, motile and morphologic...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Pinto S,Carrageta DF,Alves MG,Rocha A,Agarwal A,Barros A,Oliveira PF

更新日期：2020-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Testicular sperm extraction is a common surgical procedure to retrieve spermatozoa from men with azoospermia which may affect the tissue and cause hypogonadism (Human Reproduction Update, 24, 2018, 442). We aimed to evaluate the acute effect of micro-TESE on blood total testosterone (TT) and luteinising hormone (LH) l...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Sertkaya Z,Tokuç E,Özkaya F,Ertaş K,Kutluhan MA,Çulha MG

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperation in cases of childlessness between andrologists and gynecologists is an essential of any treatment. In a short communication it was shown that a special investigation form can be helpful for reciprocal information. This investigation form improves the information rate form 10% to 30%. In some cases the ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Schirren C

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor (AR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor member of the nuclear receptor superfamily. The existence of alternatively spliced variants is well recognised for several members of this superfamily, most of them having functional importance. For example, several testicular oestrogen receptor var...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Laurentino SS,Pinto PI,Tomás J,Cavaco JE,Sousa M,Barros A,Power DM,Canário AV,Socorro S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of the parameters that might have an effect on the success of microscopic testicular sperm extraction (micro-TESE) in infertile patients with nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA). Between 2003 and 2014, 860 patients with NOA were retrospectively analysed. The e...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Kizilkan Y,Toksoz S,Turunc T,Ozkardes H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of sodium and potassium ions was measured by flame photometry in human seminal plasma and human sperm cells as well as in a sperm cell suspension infected experimentally with Ureaplasma urealyticum during incubation as long as 22 hours. The sodium concentration is 86.2 +/- 21.97 mmol/l cells in sperm...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Mehl M,Petzoldt R,Engel S,Bollmann R,Köhler W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatozoa of six men with normozoospermia, oligozoospermia and teratozoospermia were capacitated in vitro in modified Tyrode's medium und evaluated for acrosome reaction using the recently described triple-stain technique. The resulting kinetics illustrate the different capacitation behaviour and ability of spermato...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Töpfer-Petersen E,Heissler E,Schill WB

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a single injection of serum gonadotrophin (PMSG) at the dose of 15 IU/kg, i.m. into rams testosterone in the plasma of blood showed a significant rise between 4th and 7th day post-injection. At the same time (4th-7th day) the plasminogen activator activity (PAA) in seminal plasma was found to be increased, but t...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Rekkas C,Belibasaki S,Taitzoglou I,Kokolis N,Smokovitis A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the synchronization between a periodic vibration and flashing light, we designed a device to determine the flagellar beating frequency of human sperm. The head of a spermatozoon was either held by the tip of a micropipette operated with a micromanipulator or adhered by itself on the surface of a glass slide w...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Chen CS,Chao HT,Leng CH,Pan RL,Wei YH

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptors in the control of FSH and LH secretion was analysed in prepubertal male rats. In the first experiment 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 30-day-old males were decapitated 15 min after vehicle, NMDA or kainic acid (KA) administration. In the second experiment, 23-day-old...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Aguilar E,Tena-Sempere M,Gonzalez D,Pinilla L

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubular hyalinization was studied both light and electron microscopically in 22 cases. 8 of them were found in undescended testes and 5 cases represented possible intermediary forms with only partial hyalinization of the tubules. In these testes spermatogenic arrest, hypospermatogenesis, only Sertoli cells and areas w...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Söderström KO

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate possible ultrasound seminal vesicle (SV) changes in infertile patients with 'hypertrophic-congestive' (HCUF) or 'fibro-sclerotic' (FSUF) ultrasound form of male accessory gland infection (MAGI) after prolonged administration of tadalafil (TAD), a selective phosphodiesterase-5 i...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： La Vignera S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins secreted by human seminal vesicles are strongly positively charged. Cellulose acetate electrophoresis show how the presence of two protein bands of vesicular origin (N3 and N4). When studied on SDS-PAGE there are three main bands of molecular weight 67, 45 and 40 kDa, respectively. These proteins may be separ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Montagnon D,Valtat B,Vignon F,Koll-Back MH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is an intractable disease. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of cryotherapy in the therapy of CP/CPPS. One hundred and seventy-two patients with CP/CPPS were randomised to receive cryotherapy or sham cryotherapy. The follow-up assessments were done at we...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Peng X,Gao H,Wang J

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was performed to measure the impact of testosterone (T) administration on circulating levels of 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Group 1 (32 men; mean age 61 years; mean T 6.9 +/- 1.9 nmol l(-1)) were treated for 15 months with long-acting T undecanoate. Group 2 (23 men, mean age 60 years, mean T 7.6 +/- 2....

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Gooren LJ,Saad F,Haide A,Yassin A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten subfertile men affected by idiopathic oligoteratoasthenozoospermia and exhibiting normal serum hormone levels received a long-term treatment with human pure follicle-stimulating hormone (hp-FSH) (150 IU, intramuscularly, three times per week for 6 months). Semen parameters and ultrastructural features of spermatoz...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Arnaldi G,Balercia G,Barbatelli G,Mantero F

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00