ArticleAsian journal of andrology
Semen microbiota and cytokines of healthy and infertile men.
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- Association between the dietary inflammatory index and infertility: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Unfolding the Semen Microbiota: Implications for Male Infertility.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Evaluation of the semen microbiome for fertility in men with obesity using next-generation sequencing.Basic and clinical andrology · 2025Article
- Integrated profiling of semen microbiota and metabolome reveals dysregulation in primary idiopathic male infertility.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- All Properties of Infertility Microbiome in a Review Article.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2025Review
- Understanding the Associations of Urogenital Microbiomes With Fertility and In Vitro Fertilization.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2025Review
- State-of-the-art approaches in the investigation of human seminal bacteriome using metagenomic methods.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Review
- Contribution of the seminal microbiome to paternal programming.Biology of reproduction · 2024Review
- Effect of environmental factors on seminal microbiome and impact on sperm quality.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- The association between dietary inflammatory index and C-reactive protein in plasma and semen with semen quality: A cross-sectional study.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2023Article
- Characterization of Seminal Microbiome of Infertile Idiopathic Patients Using Third-Generation Sequencing Platform.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Human Male Genital Tract Microbiota.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Seminal Microbiota of Idiopathic Infertile Patients and Its Relationship With Sperm DNA Integrity.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In this study, we determined the levels of cytokine secretory inhibitors and the microbiota biofilms of semen from healthy and infertile subjects. A total of 118 clinical bacterial isolates were isolated and tested. Cytokine secretory inhibitors were determined based on the difference in cytokine content between the control and experimental samples of cell-free supernatants of isolated microorganisms. Biofilm formation was studied by determining the adhesion of microorganisms to the surface of a 96-well sterile plate and expressed as the optical density at 630 nm (OD
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