Varicocele and male infertility: current concepts and future perspectives.

What it found

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Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Comparative Impact of Microsurgical Varicocelectomy Versus Observation on Infertility in Infertile Men With Subclinical Varicocele.Cureus · 2025
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4. Involvement of autophagy in germ cells in an experimental model of varicocele in rats before and after varicocelectomy.Pediatric surgery international · 2024
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5. Mendelian randomization analysis and validation supports MEGF9 and MLLT11 as potential targets for the treatment of varicocele and male infertility.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024
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6. Oxidative Stress and Male Infertility: The Protective Role of Antioxidants.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023
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7. Oxidative Stress and Idiopathic Male Infertility.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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8. Verbascoside attenuates experimental varicocele-induced damage to testes and sperm levels through up-regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis.Pharmaceutical biology · 2021
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9. Utility of Antioxidants in the Treatment of Male Infertility: Clinical Guidelines Based on a Systematic Review and Analysis of Evidence.The world journal of men's health · 2021
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10. Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress (ER Stress) and Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) Occur in a Rat Varicocele Testis Model.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2020
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11. Oxidative stress and male infertility: current knowledge of pathophysiology and role of antioxidant therapy in disease management.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2020
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12. The role of sperm DNA testing on male infertility.Translational andrology and urology · 2017
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13. Novel concepts in male factor infertility: clinical and laboratory perspectives.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2016
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14. Proteomic analysis of seminal plasma from bilateral varicocele patients indicates an oxidative state and increased inflammatory response.Asian journal of andrology
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15. Varicocele and male infertility: current concepts and future perspectives.Asian journal of andrology
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16. Afterword to varicocele and male infertility: current concepts and future perspectives.Asian journal of andrology
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