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Reductive Stress and Male Infertility.

Pallav SenguptaSulagna DuttaAhmed T Alahmar
Published in: Advances in experimental medicine and biology (2022)
Male infertility research and clinical advances had vast progress in the last few decades. Strong research evidence underpinned the concepts of oxidative stress (OS)-mediated male reproductive disruptions, which bear answers to several cases of idiopathic male infertility. Antioxidant treatment held the prime solution for OS-mediated male infertility. But excess use of antioxidants is challenged by the research breakthrough that reductive stress also predisposes to male infertility, resolutely instituting that any biological extremes of the redox spectrum are deleterious to male fertility. Superfluity of reducing agents may hinder essential oxidation mechanisms, affecting physiological homeostasis. These mechanisms need to be explicated and updated time and again to identify the fine thread between OS-mediated male infertility treatment and induction of reductive stress. This chapter thus presents the evidence-based concepts pertaining to the antioxidants actions to combat OS-induced male infertility, the mechanism of induction of reductive stress and its impact on male reproduction.
Keyphrases
  • oxidative stress
  • polycystic ovary syndrome
  • type diabetes
  • air pollution
  • young adults
  • insulin resistance
  • signaling pathway
  • metabolic syndrome
  • hydrogen peroxide
  • diabetic rats
  • anti inflammatory