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ArticleJournal of assisted reproduction and genetics2016

Oxidative stress and the etiology of male infertility.

R J Aitken

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Article in Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. New Delivery Systems on Sperm Quality Improvement.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  13. How Food Choices Impact on Male Fertility.Current nutrition reports · 2023
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  18. Calcium Homeostasis in the Epididymal Microenvironment:Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  19. Epigenetic Modifications, A New Approach to Male Infertility Etiology: A Review.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

R J AitkenDiscipline of Biological Sciences and Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science, Faculty of Science and IT, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia. John.Aitken@newcastle.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AntioxidantsHumansInfertility, MaleMaleOxidative StressReactive Oxygen SpeciesSemenSpermatozoaAntioxidantsReactive Oxygen Species

Identifiers

PMID27544275
PMCPMC5171887

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Registered trials

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