High blood pressure: How does it affect male fertility potential? Singh Amit Kant1, Sant Santosh Kumar2, Singh Ramji3, Nagrath Arun4, Singh Mohan5, Hyder ANG6, Gupta R.K.7, Agarwal D.S.8, Tomar Shalini9, Verma Narsingh10* 1Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, India 2Associate Professor & Head, Dept. of Physiology, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, India 3Additional Professor, Dept. of Physiology, AIIMS, Patna, India 4Professor & Head, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, India 5Professor & Head, Dept. of Surgery, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, India 6Lecturer, Dept. of Physiology, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, India 7Senior Surgeon & Medical Superintendent, ESI Hospital, Agra, India 8Pathologist, ESI Hospital, Agra, India 9Medical Officer, Obstetrics & Gynecology, ESI Hospital, Agra, India 10Professor, Dept. of Physiology, KGMU, Lucknow, India *Corresponding Author: Prof. Narsingh Verma, Dept. of Physiology, KGMU, Lucknow, India E mail: nsvermakgmu@gmail.com
Online published on 21 March, 2015. Abstract Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are ubiquitous reactive derivatives of O2 metabolism found in the environment and in all biological systems. Within the cardiovascular system, ROS play a crucial physiological role in maintaining cardiac and vascular integrity and a pathophysiological role in cardiovascular dysfunction associated with several clinical conditions, including hypertension. It is known that oxidative stress affects the testicular function by disruption of germinal cell epithelial division and differentiation along with the induction of germ cell apoptosis Top Keywords Reactive oxygen species, cardiovascular dysfunction, testicular function. Top |