The effects of vasectomy on viscosity, pH and volume of semen in man.

abstract：:Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) is a rare disease associated with male infertility. In our previous study, we identified a homozygous CFAP43 splice-site variant, c.3661-2delA, in a patient with MMAF. However, the mutational effect of this variant was unknown. Here, using a minigene as...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Li L,Feng F,Wang Y,Guo J,Yue W

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult male bonnet monkeys maintained under regulated light: dark conditions exhibit a nycthemeral surge of testosterone. The present study attempts to determine the effect of administration of drugs that modulate prolactin levels like ergobromocriptine (EBC) and chlorpromazine (CPZ) on testosterone production. The inj...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Rao AJ,Rani CS,Ravindranath N,Moudgal NR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical and morphological examination of 50 bilateral testicular biopsies of infertile men shows the presence of immunoglobulin in 20% of the cases, suggesting that testicular immune phenomena might be implicated in the pathogenesis of infertility. Several observations make it clear that immune phenomena a...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Jadot-Van De Casseye M,De Bled G,Gepts W,Schoysman R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that the ratio of estradiol to testosterone (E2/T ratio) has a negative effect on sexual function, but the relationship between the E2/T ratio and erection of the penis is not clarified. We conducted a retrospective study of 183 patients with erectile dysfunction and 52 healthy men to inves...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Pan D,Xu ZH,Gao Q,Li M,Guan Y,Zhao ST

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Definition of chronic male genital tract inflammation and its impact on male infertility is still a matter of debate. In particular, DNA integrity has been reported to be disturbed in subfertile men. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate an association of DNA integrity to altered standard semen parameters as ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Haidl F,Haidl G,Oltermann I,Allam JP

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One prerequisite for fertilization is the specific binding of spermatozoa to the zona pellucida. However, the factors and mechanisms involved in this gamete contact are not well understood. Gamete recognition and binding are species-specific and are controlled by oligosaccharides of the zona and their corresponding ca...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Michelmann HW,Töpfer-Petersen E,Schwartz P,Gratz G,Magerkurth C

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although feeding diets containing the extract powder of Lepidium meyenii (maca), a plant growing in Peru's Central Andes, increases serum testosterone concentration associated with enhanced ability of testosterone production by Leydig cells in male rats, changes in testicular steroidogenesis-related factors by the mac...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Ohta Y,Kawate N,Inaba T,Morii H,Takahashi K,Tamada H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CAG trinucleotide repeats are coded for the polyglutamine tract in the N-terminal of the androgen receptor (AR) gene which varies in normal individuals from 6 to 36 residues. In this study, we inspected the impact of the CAG repeats on the spermatogenic defects by measuring the size of AR-CAG repeats length in a cohor...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Al Zoubi MS,Bataineh H,Rashed M,Al-Trad B,Aljabali AAA,Al-Zoubi RM,Al Hamad M,Issam AbuAlArjah M,Batiha O,Al-Batayneh KM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no efficient and noninvasive clinical tests to distinguish between obstructive azoospermia (OA) and non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). Epididymal protease inhibitor (Eppin) protein is secreted specifically by testes and epididymides in male reproductive system. It does not exist in seminal plasma of patients...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Liu B,Su S,Wang P,Niu X,Yang X,Zhang W,Wang Z,Wang X

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maturation arrest is a common cause of male infertility which has caused worldwide concern, and its pathophysiological process remains further elucidation. Our study aimed to identify genetic characteristics of maturation arrest by comparing gene expression between maturation arrest and normal samples using microarray...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Fang Y,Liu D,Yang Y,Zhang H,Wu H,Jiang H,Zhao L,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive Motility Sustaining Factor (PMSF) was isolated from human epididymides. PMSF could significantly improve progressive motility of oligozoospermic as well as asthenozoospermic semen. PMSF was found to increase cyclic AMP accumulation by the human spermatozoa indicating its possible mode of action. ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Sheth AR,Gunjikar AN,Shah GV

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 10 days i.m. treatment of testosterone propionate (TP) on plasma testosterone and accessory reproductive organs were studied in adult (6 to 6 1/2 kg) male rhesus monkeys, housed under natural light conditions using six different dose levels. The study was scheduled in the month of September and October. ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Mangat HK

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Zinc is proposed to have an important role in the morphology, viability and motility of spermatozoa. There are inconsistent reports on the association between seminal plasma zinc concentration and male infertility. For this purpose, papers reporting the level of seminal zinc among asthenozoospermic groups were selecte...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Taravati A,Tohidi F

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1994 and 2010, a total of 123 patients with obstructive azoospermia due to aplasia of vas deferens (CAVD) were surgically treated. In 110 patients, the condition was bilateral (CBAVD), 13 men had unilateral aplasia (CUAVD), and 10 patients additionally had aplasia of one kidney. All patients underwent CFTR gen...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Schwarzer JU,Schwarz M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective-cohort study aimed at investigating the influence of paternal lifestyle factors on semen parameters and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) outcomes. The influence of paternal lifestyle factors on seminal quality and ICSI outcomes was investigated in male patients undergoing conventional semen ana...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Borges E Jr,Braga DPAF,Provenza RR,Figueira RCS,Iaconelli A Jr,Setti AS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:30 patients with normogonadotrophic oligozoospermia from 1-20 mill/ml (group A) and 30 men with a sperm density from 210-40,0 mill/ml (group B) from the andrologic laboratory of the University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Graz, Austria were treated with a 120 mg testosteron-undecanoate per os for 100 days. On...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Pusch HH

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicocele is one of causes of the declined sperm quality and low sperm production, which can lead to infertility in males. There are several experimental and epidemiological findings which support the idea that inflammatory mechanisms play an essential role in varicocele pathogenesis. Besides, in this pathological st...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Zeinali M,Hadian Amree A,Khorramdelazad H,Karami H,Abedinzadeh M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible physiological role of testicular corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the regulation of testicular functions was studied in neonatal rats. Two microlitres of anti-CRF-antiserum (dilution: 1:10 or 1:100) was injected intratesticularly to 5 d-old rats with two testes and to hemicastrates. Five days after...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Gerendai I,Nemeskéri A,Csernus V

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abutilon pannosum (Forst.f.) Schlecht. is used for male sexual performance. In this study, we have investigated aphrodisiac potential of A. pannosum stem bark methanol extract (APM) in rat. Male rats were administered with APM (400 mg/kg) on daily basis for 5, 10 and 15 days. Time interval for mount latency, intromiss...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Khalil I,Khan MR,Ghani M,Akbar F

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides can be toxic to desirable plants and animals, including humans. The aim of this study was to investigate the reproductive effects of low doses of pesticides on male offspring of exposed pregnant mice. Three groups of five female mice were treated daily by oral gavage with dimethoate (5 mg kg(-1) per day), d...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Ben Slima A,Ben Abdallah F,Keskes-Ammar L,Mallek Z,El Feki A,Gdoura R

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spermatological phenomenon of increased exfoliation of immature germ cells (IGC) not commonly known until now, can be defined quantitatively as a number of above 4% IGC in relation to the sperm count. The variable aspect of premature germ cells may be confusing and their degenerative alterations complicate definit...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Sigg C,Hornstein OP

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male factor infertility affects approximately half of the infertile couples, in spite of many years of research on male infertility treatment and diagnosis; several outstanding questions remain to be addressed. In this regard, metabolomics as a novel field of omics has been suggested to be applied for male infertility...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Minai-Tehrani A,Jafarzadeh N,Gilany K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to compare the water test and the hypoosmotic test (HOS) in the assessment of the human sperm membrane. A total of 686 semen samples from human male donors were subjected to water and HOS tests after routine semen evaluation. The mean percentage of swollen spermatozoa was 71.8 +/- 9.6% i...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Bahamondes L,Fazano F,De Lucio MA,Neves PA,Bottcher Luiz F,Lorenzetti GB

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azoospermia factor (AZF) genes are involved in spermatogenesis. Deletions in the region of these genes have been recognised as a major genetic cause of infertility due to defects in spermatogenesis. Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is the other main cause of male infertility. This study was performed to establish a novel met...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Bahrami Zadegan S,Dabbagh Bagheri S,Joudaki A,Samiee Aref MH,Saeidian AH,Abiri M,Zeinali S

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of bacteria and/or leukocytes on the outcome of IVF or ICSI is influenced by three factors which have little in common with in vivo conditions: 1) The process of ejaculate preparation (swim-up, Percoll) with antibiotic buffered media; 2) The small amount of inseminated spermatozoa (100,000 per culture); ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Michelmann HW

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:In order to investigate whether a hypothalamic disorder cause hypogonadism in male prolactinomas, LH pulsatile secretion was studied in 13 male patients. Serum PRL levels ranged from 186 to 45,000 ng ml-1 before treatment, and all the tumors were macroadenomas. Reduced LH secretion was revealed in 5 of 13 patients, an...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Saitoh Y,Arita N,Hayakawa T,Onishi T,Koga M,Mori S,Mogami H

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:150 randomized patients from the andrology department of the University Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Graz, Austria have been evaluated concerning their motivation, cooperation and compliance. To gain basic data from andrology patients and to analyze consequences after the first clinical examination was one ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Pusch HH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00