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Record W2315046955 · doi:10.5897/sre11.357

Hydrogen therapy may be a novel, safe and effective treatment for infertility patients with varicocele

2011· article· en· W2315046955 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Research and Essays · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHydrogen's biological and therapeutic effects
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVaricoceleInfertilityMedicineGynecologyMale infertilityObstetricsUrologyPregnancyBiology

Abstract

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Hydrogen gas recently was discovered as a novel therapeutic medical agent in many biomedical fields. It has potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic protective effects on cells and organs. Increasing evidence showed that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in spermatogenesis dysfunction in patients with varicocele. Varicocelectomy and antioxidant treatment can improve the quality of sperm by reducing the production of ROS. Our hypothesis is that hydrogen therapy may be a novel, safe and effective treatment for male infertility with varicocele. Key words: Hydrogen, therapy, infertility, varicocele. INTRODUCTION Hydrogen constitutes approximately 75% of the universe’s elemental mass (Buchholz et al., 2008). Hydrogen, mainly used in fossil fuel processing, is seldom consider as a therapeutic gas (Shen et al., 2010). However, Oshawa et al. (2007) found that hydrogen gas has antioxidant and ant apoptotic properties that protect the brain against ischemia–reperfusion injury and s troke by selectively neutralizing hydroxyl radicals and peroxynitrite. Other research also indicated that hydrogen gas can also be effective for myocardial and liver ischemia–reperfusion injury, small intestinal transplantation injury and DM (Buchholz et al., 2008; Sun et al., 2009; Hayashida et al., 2008; Fukuda et al., 2007; Kajiyama et al., 2008). Growing evidence supports that oxidative stress, which is mainly caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS), plays an important role in spermatogenesis dysfunction of patients with varicocele (Shiraishi and Naito, 2005; Smith et al., 1996; Alkan et al.,1997; Barbieri et al., 1999;Hendin et al., 1999; Ko ¨ksal et al., 2000; Koksal et

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.216
Threshold uncertainty score0.336

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.152
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it