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

Table 6

Spearman correlations between semen parameters and oxidative stress and cytokines.

	Seminal plasma								Spermatozoa
	Total SOD	Mn-SOD	GPx	MDA	Albumin	IL-8	IL-12 (p70)	MCP-1	Total SOD	Mn-SOD	CuZn-SOD	MDA
Sperm cell count in 1 ml	0.17	0.15			0.22		0.19		0.31	0.51		0.44
Total sperm cell count	0.12	0.15			0.21		0.18		0.33	0.51		0.44
Total motility after 1 hour				−0.14		−0.18		−0.21		0.26		0.23
Rapid progressive motility (a) after 1 hour								−0.24	0.25	0.47		0.36
Slow progressive motility (b) after 1 hour				−0.21	0.20		0.20	−0.18			−0.27
Progressive motility (a + b) after 1 hour				−0.11	0.15			−0.22		0.31	−0.24	0.34
Motile spermatozoa after 24 hours			−0.18		0.29				0.30	0.44		0.26
Progressive motility after 24 hours			−0.16	−0.11	0.25					0.39		0.31

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