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• TITLE: Gonadotropin and Testosterone hormone’s serum levels and partial deletions in the AZFc region in Iranian oligozoospermia infertile males

  AUTHORS: Nasser Salsabili, Reza Mirfakhraei, Maryam Montazeri, Mitra Ataei, Paricheher Yaghmaei, Gholamreza Pourmand

  KEYWORDS: Oligozoospermia; Gonadotropin Hormone; AZFc Partial Deletion

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.3 No.9, September 23, 2011

  ABSTRACT: To investigate the relation of luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and Testosterone serum levels with partial deletions in the AZFc region in Iranian oligozoospermia males. Material and methods: thirty infertile oligozoospermia and 52 Iranian fertile men included. The hormonal assays were measured by the Radioimmunoassay (RIA). Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (M-PCR) using eight sequence-tagged site (STS) markers were measured on the Yq11 chromosome. Results: The mean of FSH and LH levels in all oligozoospermia males were higher than fertile men (p