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BioMed Research International
Volume 2016, Article ID 4302754, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4302754
Research Article

Seminal miRNA Relationship with Apoptotic Markers and Oxidative Stress in Infertile Men with Varicocele

Taymour Mostafa,1 Laila A. Rashed,2 Nashaat I. Nabil,3 Ihab Osman,1 Rashad Mostafa,4 and Mohamed Farag3

1Department of Andrology & Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
2Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
3Department of Andrology and Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
4Department of Andrology and Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Received 9 August 2016; Accepted 16 November 2016

Academic Editor: Robert Stoehr

Copyright © 2016 Taymour Mostafa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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