New discriminatory level for glucosidase activity to diagnose epididymal obstruction or dysfunction

B. Kret; Magdy P Milad; R. S. Jeyendran

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New discriminatory level for glucosidase activity to diagnose epididymal obstruction or dysfunction

B. Kret, Magdy P Milad^*, R. S. Jeyendran

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Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Abstract

Neutral αglucosidase activity was measured in seminal plasma of 30 patients consulting for infertility with a variety of disorders, and compared with 25 normal controls. Significantly more of the study populations (asthenozoospermia, 4/6; oligozoospermia, 3/5; azoospermia 8/15) had a neutral αglucosidase activity less than 10 mIU/mL as compared with control samples (3/25). Also the mean (± SD) neutral αglucosidase activity in patients with asthenozoospermia (11.7 ± 9.2) oligozoospermia (11.3 ± 7.2), and post vasectomy azoospermia (5.3 ± 3.4) was significantly (p < 05) less than ejaculate from controls (21.2 ± 14). A seminal αglucosidase level of 10 mlU/mL appears to be a useful discriminatory marker in the diagnosis of epididymal obstruction or dysfunction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	29-33
Number of pages	5
Journal	Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/01485019508987850
State	Published - Jan 1 1995

Keywords

Infertility epididymis
Male infertility
Neutral αglucosidase activity
Semen analysis
Seminal plasma

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Reproductive Medicine
Urology

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