Advancing age increases sperm chromatin damage and impairs fertility in peroxiredoxin 6 null mice

Due to socioeconomic factors, more couples are choosing to delay conception than ever. Increasing average maternal and paternal age in developed countries over the past 40 years has raised the question of how aging affects reproductive success of males and females. Since oxidative stress in the male...

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Main Authors: Burak Ozkosem, Sheldon I. Feinstein, Aron B. Fisher, Cristian O’Flaherty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-08-01
Series:Redox Biology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231715000221