Background: Oxidative stress plays a key role in the etiology of male infertility. Significant alterations in the sperm proteome are associated with poor semen quality. The aim of the present study was to examine if elevated ...
Rengan, Anil K.Agarwal, AshokVan Der Linde, MichelleDu Plessis, Stefan S.(BioMed Central, 2012-11)
ABSTRACT: Recent studies have shown cytoplasmic droplets to be normal morphological occurrences in human male spermatozoa. When the cytoplasm around the sperm midpiece is present in large amounts, however, pathological ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: The mechanism behind obesity-related cardiomyopathies is at present not completely known, however, cardiac insulin resistance has been implicated as one of the main arbitrators of obesity-related ...
Myburgh, Kathryn H.De Bruto, Petro C.(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2008-07)
Untreated infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
leads to severe physical debilitation, culminating in the acquired
immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Multiple infections,
body mass loss, physical weakness ...
Waltemath, DagmarAdams, Richard(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2011-04)
Reproducibility of experiments is a basic requirement for science. Minimum Information (MI) guidelines have proved a helpful means of enabling reuse of existing work in modern biology. The Minimum Information Required in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Protein kinases and phosphatases play important roles in the phosphorylation state of intracellular proteins under both physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions. Compared to the large number of studies ...
Webster, IngridHuisamen, BarbaraDu Toit, Eugene F.(American Society of Exercise Physiologists, 2011-10)
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of dietary creatine supplementation among sports men and women, and by clinicians as a therapeutic agent in muscular and neurological diseases. The effects on skeletal muscles ...
Van Vuuren, Derick(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has recently been observed that the application of multiple short cycles of reperfusion and ischaemia, at the onset of reperfusion, elicits cardioprotection against injury due to prior sustained ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: Myocardial oxidative fuel supply is increased in obese conditions. How
this metabolic environment and altered cardiometabolic phenotype associated with prediabetic
obesity impacts on cardiac ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: The worldwide escalation in the incidence of obesity and its strong association
with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and the cardiovascular complications that accompany
these disease ...
Lochner, A.Marais, E.Genade, S.Huisamen, B.Du Toit, E. F.Moolman, J. A.(Clinics Cardiv Publishing, 2009-02)
Exposure of the heart to one or more short episodes of
ischaemia/reperfusion protects the heart against a subsequent
prolonged period of ischaemia, as evidenced by a
reduction in infarct size and an improvement in ...
The powerful cardioprotective actions of melatonin, the chief
secretory product of the pineal gland, have been attributed
largely to its free radical-scavenging properties. Free radicals
play an important role in the ...
Van Vuuren, DerickLochner, Amanda(Clinics Cardiv Publishing, 2008-12)
The increase in the incidence of ischaemic heart disease and
acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in both high- and lowincome
countries necessitates the development of myocardial
salvaging/protection interventions, to be ...
Du Plessis, Stefan S.Kashou, Anthony H.Benjamin, David J.Yadav, Satya P.Agarwal, Ashok(BioMed Central, 2011-03)
Abstract. Background. Male-factor infertility presents a vexing problem for many reproductively active couples. Many studies have focused on abnormal sperm parameters. Recent advances in proteomic techniques, especially ...
Van Jaarsveld, F. P.Hattingh, S.Minnaar, P.(SASEV, 2009)
As part of a broader study that investigated techniques for the rapid induction of the needed ageing character in brandy products, the effect of oak wood toasting on quality and chemical composition of oak wood extracts ...