Studies on Women's Health || Female Infertility and Free Radicals: Potential Role in Endometriosis and Adhesions

✍ Scribed by Agarwal, Ashok; Aziz, Nabil; Rizk, Botros

• Book ID: 120411367
• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 299 KB
• Edition: 2013
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1627030417
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-041-0_16

✦ Synopsis

This volume covers data describing the role of free radicals and antioxidants that deal with clinical and pre-clinical trials, as well as basic research in the area of women's health.  There is increasing evidence that oxidative stress is a causative, or at least a supporting factor in female pathology and infertility.  During advancing gestational age, oxidative stress biomakers rise.  Oxidative stress plays a regulatory role in transcription, signal transduction, gene expression and membrane trafficking.  A search on Pub Med shows 449 papers have been published to date related to women's health disorders and use of antioxidants in a variety of disease that are prevalent in women, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity and restless leg syndrome.