Isoprostanes and Isofurans in Infertility and Assisted Reproduction: What Do We Know So Far?

Charalampos Voros, Fotios Chatzinikolaou, Georgios Papadimas, Athanasios Karpouzos, Aristotelis-Marios Koulakmanidis, Diamantis Athanasiou, Kyriakos Bananis, Antonia Athanasiou, Aikaterini Athanasiou, Charalampos Tsimpoukelis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Maria Anastasia Daskalaki, Christina Trakateli, N · 2026

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Charalampos Voros leads a large team in a 2026 review on chemical signs of cell damage in infertility care. Stress from excess reactive oxygen can harm sperm, eggs, and early embryos. Two stable byproducts of fat damage in cell walls, isoprostanes and isofurans, give a firm read on that stress.

The review gathers what is known about these markers in male and female infertility and in lab-based conception care. High levels track with weak sperm motion, wall damage, and broken DNA in sperm. The authors weigh how far the markers can guide tests or care, and where proof is still thin.

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CREATORCharalampos Voros, Fotios Chatzinikolaou, Georgios Papadimas, Athanasios Karpouzos, Aristotelis-Marios Koulakmanidis, Diamantis Athanasiou, Kyriakos Bananis, Antonia Athanasiou, Aikaterini Athanasiou, Charalampos Tsimpoukelis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Maria Anastasia Daskalaki, Christina Trakateli, N
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE89 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13256675

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