to investigate the association of sub-fertility/ infertility with increased bmi in overweight and obese men and in control group in karnataka, south india. in this pilot study 20 overweight and obese men, aged 25-45, and 10 normal-weighed men with proven fertility were included. both groups were married. all cases and controls were evaluated for different semen parameters according to world hea...

background: infertility is a health problem which affects about 10-20% of married couples. male factor infertility is involved approximately 50% of infertile couples. most of male infertility is regarding to deletions in the male-specific region of the y chromosome. objective: in this study, the occurrence of deletions in the azf region and association between infertility and paternal age were ...

background: androgens play critical role in secondary sexual and male gonads differentiations such as spermatogenesis, via androgen receptor. the human androgen receptor (ar) encoding gene contains two regions with three nucleotide polymorphic repeats (cag and ggn) in the first exon. unlike the cag repeats, the ggn has been less studied because of technical difficulties, so the functional role ...

background: septins are an evolutionary conserved group of gtp-binding and filament-forming proteins that have diverse cellular roles. an increasing body of data implicates the septin family in the pathogenesis of diverse states including cancers, neurodegeneration, and male infertility. objective: the objective of the study was to evaluate the expression pattern of septin14 in testis tissue of...

background: cytomegalovirus (cmv) is a prevalent infection in humans. recent studies have shown the role of cmv infection in male infertility disorder. aim: here we aimed to study the role of cmv infection in men with idiopathic infertility. materials and methods: we performed a case-control study of cmv serology in 200 patients attending male infertility clinic of a university hospital. there ...

the inability to have a child is a baleful event for millions of couples in their life, and a large percentage of them have a personal frustration. the problem of infertility in couples is distributed equitably between the two sexes. among different methods, medicinal plants have been used in many nations to treat male infertility problems. these medicinal herbs are used to treat sperm disorder...

BACKGROUND The risk of testicular cancer is thought to be higher among men seeking infertility treatment compared with the general population. Confirmation of this risk in a large US cohort of at-risk patients is lacking. This study explored the association between male infertility and subsequent development of testicular cancer in a US-based cohort. METHODS A total of 51 461 couples evaluate...

OBJECTIVES AND STUDY DESIGN The aim of this study was two-fold: to investigate the association of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and small newborn size, using standardized measures; and to examine within strata of fresh and cryopreserved embryos transfer, whether this association is influenced by parental infertility diagnoses. We used a population-based retrospective cohort from Michig...

In patients with male infertility, endorectal magnetic resonance (MR) imaging provides high-resolution images of the prostate gland and ejaculatory apparatus. The multiplanar capability of MR imaging allows production of a detailed map of the reproductive tract for guiding treatment. Causes of male infertility can be classified as congenital, acquired, infectious, or hormonal. Wolifian duct abn...

OBJECTIVE To investigate a kallikrein-related peptidase 2 (KLK2) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in relation to male infertility because of its role in semen processing. We investigated the genetic association of the KLK2+255G>A genotype with male infertility. METHODS We genotyped the SNP site located in intron 1 (+255G>A, rs2664155) of KLK2 from 218 men with male infertility (cases) and...