BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Emotional stress plays a detrimental role on fertility. In this study male patients with idiopathic infertility were selected after evaluation of psychological stress to evaluate a positive effect of a stress therapy on their semen quality. METHODS A total of 20 patients with infertility were enrolled in the study and randomly divided in two groups. Ejaculates were exam...

OBJECTIVE Patients with infertility are a high risk group in depression and anxiety. However, an existing theoretically and empirically validated model of stressors, stress, and mental symptoms specific for infertile patients is still a void. This study aimed to determine the related factors and their relational structures that affect the level of depressive and anxiety symptoms among infertile...

Oxidative stress results from the production of oxygen radicals in excess of the antioxidant capacity of the stressed tissue. Many conditions or events associated with male infertility are inducers of oxidative stress. X-irradiation, for example, or exposure to environmental toxicants and the physical conditions of varicocele and cryptorchidism have been demonstrated to increase testicular oxid...

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background & aim: stress and anxiety due to waiting for treatment results and uncertainty of treatment success are common problems in infertile women. acupuncture has been suggested as an effective strategy to relieve anxiety. this study aimed to review the available evidence on the effects of acupuncture on anxiety in infertile women. methods: this systematic review was conducted via searching...

evidence acquisition literature searching for studies on female infertility and micronutrient intakes, published between january 1984 and november 2014, was performed using the pubmed and embase databases. the bibliographies of included studies were also searched for additional references. results about 100 articles were identified and after the elimination of irrelevant studies, 28 related stu...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic infertility is a significant number of causes of male infertility. Empirical treatments are used for idiopathic male infertility, and antioxidant supplementation is a kind of management of oxidative stress related infertility. We investigated the antioxidant effects of the modified Ojayeonjonghwan (KH-204) in a rat model of cryptorchidism. METHOD Male rats were divided i...