background: excess reactive oxygen species (ros) in the semen is believed to affect fertility in men. morphologically abnormal sperms and their relation to seminal oxidative stress in infertile and subfertile men are not clear. objective: to correlate various sperm morphological defects with seminal oxidative stress in infertile and subfertile men. materials and methods: the study included 25 p...

Satarzadeh N1, Bahrami N2, Ranjbar Koch-saraei F3, Ghojazadeh M4 1. Instructor, Department of nursing, Faculty of nursing and midwifery, Tabriz University of medical sciences 2. Instructor, Department of parastari, Faculty of nursing and midwifery,Ghazvin University of medical sciences 3. Assistant professor, Department of psychology medicine , Faculty of medicine , Tabriz University o...

Background: Defective sperm function is now recognized as one of the most important causes of male infertility. Lipid peroxidation (LPO) is known to cause various impairments of sperm cells and may play a major role in the etiology of male infertility. Malondialdehyde (MDA) is one of the final products of lipid peroxidation in seminal plasma. Seminal plasma possesses a rich source of different ...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a major reproductive health in gynecology. According to the world health organization, there are currently 50-80 million infertile couples in the world. OBJECTIVE Considering the critical effects of lifestyle on reproductive health, this study aimed to compare the lifestyle of fertile and infertile couples in Kermanshah during 2013. MATERIALS AND METHODS This resea...

abstract background: infertility is a major psychosocial crisis as well as being a medical problem. the factors that predict psychosocial consequences of infertility may vary in different gender and different infertile populations. objective: the primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether turkish infertile couples had higher levels of depression and anxiety when compared to non-in...

The present study was aimed to assess the potential of infertility to induce the adverse effects with reference to testosterone, Triiodothyronine (T3), Thyroxine (T4), Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT), Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), zinc, copper and iron. All the samples were divided into four groups according to age and disorder (Group 1, 10 infertile men of 25 40 years; Group 2, 10 fertile m...

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the sperm deformity index (SDI) of proven fertile males and compare this with that of infertile males. Methods: The study was carried out at Islamic International Medical College Rawalpindi and Islamabad Clinic Serving Infertile Couples, Islamabad, from July 2005 to July 2006. It was a cross-sectional comparative study. Fifty healthy fertile ma...

Previous studies on antisperm cell-mediated immunity (CMI) have been confounded by the presence of immunogenic leukocytes in sperm antigen preparations. In this study we isolated pure populations of viable spermatozoa on discontinuous Percoll gradients, and utilized sonicated and cavitated extracts, as well as live motile spermatozoa, to measure cellular immunity to spermatozoa in vasectomized ...

Cryopreservation of human spermatozoa is extensively used in artificial insemination and IVF programmes. Despite various advances in cryopreservation methodology, the recovery rate of functional post-thaw spermatozoa remains mediocre, with sperm motility being significantly decreased after freezing. This aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cryopreservation on both DNA integrity ...