The Associations between Infertility and Antioxidants, Proinflammatory Cytokines, and Chemokines

Table 3

Antioxidant reserves in seminal plasma and spermatozoa (thiol group concentration (SH concentration), total antioxidant capacity (TAC); value—-test.

	Control		Oligospermia				Asthenospermia				Oligoasthenospermia
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Relative change	value	Mean	SD	Relative change	value	Mean	SD	Relative change	value
SH concentration (μmol/l)	211	86.6	198	84.6	−6%	0.304	196	91.6	−7%	0.279	199	87.7	−6%	0.432
TAC (mmol/l)	1.33	0.24	1.31	0.30	−1%	0.785	1.34	0.28	1%	0.814	1.35	0.33	2%	0.690
Uric acid concentration (mg/dl)	4.39	1.40	4.96	2.35	13%	0.079	4.90	2.54	12%	0.142	5.20	2.89	19%	0.045
Bilirubin (mg/dl)	0.12	0.17	0.10	0.13	−15%	0.445	0.14	0.23	17%	0.567	0.12	0.16	3%	0.906
Albumin (g/ml)	0.49	0.16	0.43	0.15	−12%	0.007	0.45	0.16	−8%	0.052	0.44	0.17	−10%	0.118

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