SynthesisAmerican journal of men's health
A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of L-Carnitine/L-Acetyl-Carnitine or N-Acetyl-Cysteine in Men With Idiopathic Asthenozoospermia.
Synthesis in American journal of men's health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Current treatment for male infertility: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Asian journal of andrology · 2024Pooled it
- Repurposing landscape of N-acetylcysteine: A scoping review of reviews toward clinical translation.PloS one · 2026Article
- Acupuncture mediates the "gut-testis axis" to improve asthenozoospermia.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Deciphering the role of reactive oxygen species in idiopathic asthenozoospermia.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Empirical Treatments for Male Infertility: A Focus on Lifestyle Modifications and Medicines.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- On Males, Antioxidants and Infertility (MOXI): Certitudes, Uncertainties and Trends.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- COVID-19 and Male Infertility: Is There a Role for Antioxidants?Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Impact of Antioxidant Therapy on Natural Pregnancy Outcomes and Semen Parameters in Infertile Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.The world journal of men's health · 2023Article
- Comments on "A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of L-Carnitine/L-Acetyl-Carnitine or N-Acetyl-Cysteine in Men with Idiopathic Asthenozoospermia".American journal of men's healthArticle
- Evaluation of L-Carnitine Potential in Improvement of Male Fertility.Journal of reproduction & infertilityReview
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
The meta-analysis was performed to access efficacy of L-carnitine/L-acetyl-carnitine (LC/LAC) and N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) in men with idiopathic asthenozoospermia. We researched PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases and references to related articles. Finally, seven articles including 621 patients were analyzed. The results indicated that LC/LAC and NAC had a considerable improvement in sperm motility (
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