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Infertility is defined as the inability to become pregnant despite 12 months of regular and unprotected intercourse. Male factors include defects in sperm concentration, morphology and motility, among which low sperm motility (asthenozoospermia) is one of the most common types of male infertility and affects approximately 40% of all cases. It has become clear that protein defects in spermatozoa and semen can cause fertilization failure by affecting sperm motility, and it is necessary to define proteins and related pathways precisely because they have an important role in the treatment phase. Increasing evidence shows that free oxygen radicals that occur as a result of oxidative stress (OS) play a very important role in the etiology of male infertility. A systematic review including 29 studies (19 randomized clinical trials and 10 prospective studies) examined the effect of antioxidant food supplementation and reported a positive effect on baseline semen parameters, advanced sperm function, outcomes of assisted reproductive therapy, and live birth rate. Conversely, few studies have failed to confirm any positive effect of antioxidant therapy and even report a negative effect on male fertility. Therefore, there is no clear consensus on the clinical efficacy of antioxidant therapy yet. Since the pathogenesis has not yet been clearly demonstrated, treatments are not based on evidence, but based on clinical experience. Our aim was to randomly divide infertile male patients who applied to our clinic with the complaint of infertility and found asthenozoospermia (restricted sperm motility) in their semen analysis into two arms and examine the effects of antioxidant food supplementation on sperm motility and proteomic structure with a placebo-comparative, prospective, double-blind study (LC-MS/MS). analysis) is to reveal the metabolic pathways that may lead to restriction of movement. The effect of antioxidant food support on sperm parameters and free oxygen radical levels in the control spermiogram after 3 (three) months of treatment to be given to the patients will be measured by ELISA method and compared with pre-treatment values.


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NCT number NCT05826782
Study type Interventional
Source Kocaeli University
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Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date November 30, 2023
Completion date February 25, 2024

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