Oral zinc supplementation restores high molecular weight seminal zinc binding protein to normal value in Iraqi infertile men.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Zinc in human seminal plasma is divided into three types of ligands which are high (HMW), intermediate (IMW), and low molecular weight ligands (LMW). The present study was aimed to study the effect of Zn supplementation on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of semen along with Zinc Binding Protein levels in the seminal plasma in asthenozoospermic patients.

Methods

Semen samples were obtained from 37 fertile and 37 asthenozoospermic infertile men with matched age. The subfertile group was treated with zinc sulfate, every participant took two capsules per day for three months (each one 220 mg). Semen samples were obtained (before and after zinc sulfate supplementation). After liquefaction seminal fluid at room temperature, routine semen analyses were p

SUBMITTER: Hadwan MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3503568 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature