Influence of bacteria and leukocytes on the outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

abstract：:Epididymal sperm reserve was determined in 6 sexually mature fertile buffalo-bulls having normal process of spermatogenesis. The relative distribution of spermatozoa in the caput, corpus and cauda epididymidis averaged 5.42, 0.75 and 11.45 billion respectively. Total epididymal sperm reserve per bull averaged 36.2 bil...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Sharma AK,Gupta RC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The events occurring at the maternal-foetal interface define a successful pregnancy but the current paradigm has shifted towards assessing the contribution of spermatozoa for embryogenesis. Spermatozoa with defective DNA integrity may fertilise the oocyte but affect subsequent embryonic development. The present case-c...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Dhawan V,Kumar M,Deka D,Malhotra N,Singh N,Dadhwal V,Dada R

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maturation arrest (MA) of spermatogenesis is diagnosed on histology as interruption of spermatogenesis before the final stage without impairment of Sertoli or Leydig cells. It is considered a condition of irreversible or absolute infertility. Varicocele, which represents impairment in the testicular venous drainage sy...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Gat Y,Gornish M,Chakraborty J,Perlow A,Levinger U,Pasqualotto F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma seminoprotein (G-SM) levels in seminal plasma were determinated in 62 ejaculates using an enzymimmunoassay. There was no statistical significant difference in G-SM between men with normozoospermia (n = 14), asthenozoospermia (n = 17), OAT-syndrome (n = 18) and azoospermia (n = 13). Also there was no correlation ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Maier U,Simak R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the effect of melatonin on leptin-induced changes in transition of histone to protamine in adult rats during spermatogenesis. Twelve-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats were randomised into control, leptin-, leptin-melatonin-10-, leptin-melatonin-20- and melatonin-10-treated groups with six rats per group...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Almabhouh FA,Singh HJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of Lepidium meyenii (maca) in chemically and physically subfertile mice. After 35 days, the following groups of mice were evaluated: control, sham, chemical subfertility, chemical subfertility-maca-supplemented, physical subfertility, physical subfertility-maca-suppleme...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Valdivia Cuya M,Yarasca De La Vega K,Lévano Sánchez G,Vásquez Cavero J,Temoche García H,Torres Torres L,Cruz Ornetta V

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of chronic chloroquine administration on prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) stimulation of testosterone secretion by the rat Leydig cells was studied. Adult albino (Wistar strain) rats were injected with 4 mg/kg body weight of chloroquine phosphate every other day for 30 days. At...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Nduka EU,Dada OA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ran-binding protein 3 (RanBP3) is a Ran-interacting protein, which participates in the Ran GTPase system in cancer cell biology. However, the expression pattern and physiological role of RanBP3 remain largely unknown. In this study, we found that RanBP3 was expressed in human testes and localised to spermatogonium and...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Tang W,Zhu Y,Qin W,Zhang H,Zhang H,Lin H,Zhen X,Zhuang X,Tang Y,Jiang H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to determine the protective effects of thymoquinone (TQ), against ischaemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in the testis tissue of rats. Twenty-seven male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into three equal groups as follows: Group I, sham group; Group II, torsion group; and Group III, torsion + thymoquinone ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Ayan M,Tas U,Sogut E,Caylı S,Kaya H,Esen M,Erdemir F,Uysal M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sulphur dioxide (SO2 ) signalling pathway and the changes in erectile function under low androgen levels. Thirty-six healthy male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats aged eight weeks were randomly divided into androgen replacement group, castration group and sham ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Li X,Jiang J,Xia J,Jiang R

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased sperm quality was caused by oxidative stress in semen from patients with leucocytospermia. Curcumin is a traditional Chinese herbal monomer extracted from Zingiberaceae turmeric and zedoary turmeric and has antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects. This study aimed to investigate the effects and specific ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Zhang L,Diao RY,Duan YG,Yi TH,Cai ZM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the aetiology of obstructive azoospermia (OA) in Chinese infertility patients, 133 OA patients was included in this study diagnosed and evaluated by one major specialist trained urological infertility. We retrospected the medical records to collect relative information. All of the patients had been underwen...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Han H,Liu S,Zhou XG,Tian L,Zhang XD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During early development of the human testis the male germ cell first appears as primordial germ cell or gonocyte and enters the prospermatogonial stage after the twelfth week of gestation. Prospermatogonia lack glycogen particles and are connected by intercellular bridges. During the same period in the ovary the fema...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Wartenberg H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous swimming up and down from identical semen specimens suggested that the separation efficiency of progressively motile sperm by the swim-down method was superior to that of the swim-up method. The swimming down was performed in a small plastic funnel, the bottom of which was plugged with a 2.5 ml dispos...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Kobayashi T,Kaneko S,Hara I,Aoki R,Ohno T,Nozawa S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicocele is one of the leading causes of male infertility in which oxidative stress induces DNA damages in spermatozoa of patients with varicocele. Recent studies indicated that the treatment with antioxidant agents has protective effects against the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Our research aimed to ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Dolatkhah MA,Shokoohi M,Charvandeh S,Tvrda E,Shoorei H,Moghimian M,Alihemmati A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm investigations of 35 epileptics being treated with hydantoin for a period of more than three years have shown that by a large dispersion of evaluations only 52% of the sperm cells were intact (teratozoospermia; compared with a normal limit of 60% p = 5%, of 70% p = 1%). The mobility of the sperm cells was 49% (a...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Schramm P,Seyfeddinipur N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searching for further characteristics of sperm in the diagnosis of male infertility it was examined if ejaculates with "normo-, oligo-, astheno-, terato-" and "azoospermia" showed typical modifications in their triglyceride- and phospholipid contents. The examination was conveyed in spermatozoa and seminal plasma. In ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Kulka P,Nissen HP,Kreysel HW

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subnormal levels of testosterone are associated with significant negative health consequences, with higher risks of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. The numbers of studies reporting on the benefits of normalisation of testosterone is increasing but longer-term data on (elderly) men receiving testosterone treatm...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Yassin AA,Nettleship J,Almehmadi Y,Salman M,Saad F

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP⁄CPPS) is the prostate gland inflammation characterised as genitourinary pain in the pelvic region. The rat experimental autoimmune prostatitis (EAP) was achieved to mimic CP⁄CPPS. The expressions of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) in the prostate, b...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Zhang J,Yi QT,Gong M,Zhang YQ,Liu D,Zhu RJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Aquaporin-9 (AQP-9) regulates tissue hydration by promoting transmembrane exchanges of both water and solutes, such as lactate. The latter is a key metabolite of primary spermatocytes and of maturing haploid germ cells (h-GCs). The present investigation was aimed at immunolocalising human AQP-9 in both normal and vari...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Arena S,Arena F,Maisano D,Di Benedetto V,Romeo C,Nicòtina PA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of opioidergic system in controlling gonadotropin secretion in elderly men still remains uncertain. In the present study, we attempted to examine the opioidergic inhibitory tone imposed on GnRH release mechanism in elderly men by monitoring the plasma gonadotropin response to the opiate receptor antagonist na...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Mikuma N,Kumamoto Y,Maruta H,Nitta T

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:The spontaneous contractility of the rat epididymis was recorded in vivo and the effects of cyproterone acetate were studied. At 7 days after cyproterone acetate daily administration the records of the epididymal contractility did not show significant differences from the records obtained in control animals. On the co...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Hib J,Ponzio RO

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has been shown to induce contraction of isolated human penile erectile tissue and potentiate the response to noradrenaline. The purpose of our study was to measure in the cavernous and systemic blood of healthy male volunteers the course of NPY through different stages of sexual arousal. Whole blo...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Ückert S,Soyk L,Trottmann M,Stief CG,Kuczyk MA,Becker AJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to statistically prove that the HBA(®) test is an efficient practical method for andrologists to determine the fertility potential as well as to measure the efficiency of oral supplement therapy in case of male infertility. In the study, 175 patients were involved and it also included the foll...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Szucs M,Osvath P,Laczko I,Jakab A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to determine effects of gallic acid (GA) and carnosic acid (CA), present in carob pods and rosemary extract respectively, on frozen-thawed ram spermatozoa. Thirty ejaculates were collected from five Merino rams, pooled, diluted in Tris-based extender and divided into five equal portions containing: 0...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Gungor S,Inanc ME,Ozturk C,Korkmaz F,Bastan I,Cil B,Kastelic JP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult human Sertoli cells produced lactate, estradiol-17beta, transferrin and inhibin; germ cells modulate synthesis of these compounds. In order to study the functional features of human Sertoli cells in vitro, the aim of this study was to measure the lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Carreau S,Drosdowsky MA,Foucault P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A careful history and evaluation of men with chronic orchialgia elucidates the aetiology in some men to be a hyperactive cremaster muscle reflex with testicular retraction as the cause. The objective is to evaluate outcomes in men who underwent microsurgical subinguinal cremaster muscle release (MSCMR) with a retrospe...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Kavoussi PK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partial cDNA sequence of the boar 28, 29-kDa proacrosin-binding protein was determined. The desired sequence was amplified and obtained by RT-PCR followed by nested PCR. The oligonucleotide primers for RT-PCR were designed by deduction from the internal amino acid sequence of the boar proacrosin-binding protein. An ...

journal_title：Andrologia

authors： Huh K,Yi LS

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00