Antioxidants in Male Infertility-If We Want to Get This Right We Need to Take the Bull by the Horns: A Pilot Study.
Usha PunjabiIlse G F GoovaertsKris PeetersDiane De NeubourgPublished in: Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Antioxidant therapy should be reserved for infertile patients who actually exhibit signs of oxidative stress (OS). Nevertheless, there is no consensus regarding the measure of the primary endpoint and the assay that should be used. The formation of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), an early marker of sperm DNA oxidation (SDO), was analyzed using flow cytometry, in men at a University hospital setup for infertility treatment. Similar to conventional semen parameters, 8-OHdG assay was validated on fresh semen samples to reduce the variability of results. SDO was associated with semen volume, sperm concentration, leucocytes and round cells, but not with age, body mass index, sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) or OS. Whether the semen samples were normal or subnormal according to the WHO criteria, the expression of 8-OHdG was not different. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis could discriminate two independent populations. Both SDF and SDO were independently expressed. A high SDF did not reveal a high SDO and vice versa. The thresholds for SDO have been established, but vary with the techniques used. The methodology for SDO needs to be further validated and optimized on a larger clinically defined patient population before the outcome measure is fit to monitor antioxidant therapy in male infertility.
Keyphrases
- oxidative stress
- flow cytometry
- induced apoptosis
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- body mass index
- circulating tumor
- high throughput
- cell free
- poor prognosis
- single molecule
- anti inflammatory
- dna damage
- ischemia reperfusion injury
- case report
- cell cycle arrest
- hydrogen peroxide
- single cell
- physical activity
- metabolic syndrome
- weight gain
- dna methylation
- signaling pathway
- clinical practice
- gene expression
- nucleic acid
- cell proliferation
- middle aged
- combination therapy
- circulating tumor cells
- cell therapy