Sperm chromatin damage associated with male smoking

Potts, Ryan; Newbury, C.J; Smith, Geoff; Notarianni, L. J.; Jefferies, T.M.

doi:10.1016/s0027-5107(98)00242-5

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“…Cigarette smoke and air pollution share common genotoxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which may form protein or DNA adducts resulting in spermatozoa with increased amounts of fragmented DNA. This increase can result in DNA mutations that predispose offspring to greater risk of malformations, cancer, and genetic diseases (Potts et al, 1999). Specifically, the increase in chromatin abnormalities may also explain the reported effect of air pollution on the incidence of conception and congenital abnormalities in the Czech Republic (Selevan et al, 2000).…”

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“…SCSA values varied significantly by sexual abstinence time (88.8% of men less than 6 days; Spano et al, 1998), donor age, smoking history (18-55 years; Spano et al, 1998;Potts et al, 1999), and exposure to high levels of air pollution (Selevan et al, 2000;Evenson et al, 2001;Perreault et al, 2001). Cigarette smoke and air pollution share common genotoxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which may form protein or DNA adducts resulting in spermatozoa with increased amounts of fragmented DNA.…”

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Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay: Its Clinical Use for Detecting Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Male Infertility and Comparisons With Other Techniques

Evenson

Larson

Jost

2002

Journal of Andrology

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768

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The Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay (SCSA) was first described in the December 5, 1980 issue of Science (Evenson et al, 1980a). The data described in that article showed a significant difference between proven fertile and subfertility or infertility in men and bulls and the susceptibility to denaturation of their sperm nuclear DNA. A subsequent study (Evenson et al, 1984) described SCSA data obtained from men with testicular cancer. The data were heterogeneous, and begged the question, what was SCSA measuring? Great effort has been spent over the past 15 years on animal model systems, mostly related to dose-response toxicology experiments and large animal fertility trials. The results from these studies showed that SCSA was highly dose-responsive to toxicants, highly repeatable, and provided meaningful biological information on sperm nuclear DNA defects. The extensive data from nonhumans (Evenson et al, 1985(Evenson et al, , 1989a(Evenson et al, ,b, 1993a(Evenson et al, ,b,c, 1994Ballachey et al, 1987Ballachey et al, , 1988Evenson and Jost, 1993; Sailer et al, 1995a,b;Evenson, 1999a), and human toxicology and fertility studies (Evenson et al, 1978(Evenson et al, , 1980a(Evenson et al, ,b, 1984(Evenson et al, , 1991Evenson and Melamed, 1983;Evenson, 1999b;Larson et al, 1999Larson et al, , 2000Larson et al, , 2001 provide This work was supported in part by grant R827019 from the US Environmental Protection Agency, grants EPS-9720642 and OSR-9452894 from the National Science Foundation, and by SCSA Diagnostics, Inc. This is South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station publication 3273 of the journal series.Correspondence to: Donald P. Evenson, Olson Biochemistry Laboratories, ASC 136, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57006 (e-mail: donald evenson@sdstate.edu).Received for publication September 20, 2001; accepted for publication September 20, 2001. compelling evidence that SCSA will be useful in clinical human semen analysis (Figure 1).After reviewing current infertility center sites on the World Wide Web and approximately a dozen lay-oriented books on infertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART), it was amazing that not a single reference contained any information about the negative influence of fragmented sperm nuclear DNA on successful pregnancy outcome. Furthermore, few physicians are aware of scientific literature on this subject. Currently, if a spermatozoon has some motility as seen under a light microscope, and reasonable morphology, then many ART clinics assume that the sperm DNA must be fine. However, a number of cases have been documented in which couples have had multiple failed attempts at intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), even using donor eggs, and we found that the fragmentation of sperm DNA was above our threshold for less than 1% probability of achieving a successful pregnancy. Spermatozoa with defective DNA can fertilize an oocyte, produce high-quality early stage embryos, and then, in relationship to the extent of DNA damage, fail in producing a successful term ...

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Section: Sperm Chromatin Structure Assaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sperm Chromatin Structure Assaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay: Its Clinical Use for Detecting Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Male Infertility and Comparisons With Other Techniques

Evenson

Larson

Jost

2002

Journal of Andrology

908

768

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“…Smokers have decreased levels of seminal plasma antioxidants such as vitamin C (Tremellen et al, 2008). Spermatozoa from subjects who smoked are signifi cantly more sensitive to acid-induced DNA denaturation than non-smokers (Potts et al, 1999). In a study of 655 smokers and 1131 non-smokers, it was shown that cigarette smoking was associated with a signifi cant decrease in sperm density, total sperm count, and total number of motile sperm (Kunzle et al, 2003).…”

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Vitamin C and oxidative stress in the seminiferous epithelium

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In this article, we focus on the fundamental role of vitamin C transporters for the normal delivery of vitamin C to germ cells in the adluminal compartment of seminiferous tubules. We argue that the redox status within spermatozoa or in semen is partly responsible for the etiology of infertility. In this context, antioxidant defence plays a critical role in male fertility. Vitamin C, a micronutrient required for a wide variety of metabolic functions, has long been associated with male reproduction. Two systems for vitamin C transport have been described in mammals. Facilitative hexose transporters (GLUTs), with 14 known isoforms to date, GLUT1-GLUT14, transport the oxidized form of vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid) into the cells. Sodium ascorbic acid co-transporters (SVCTs), SVCT1 and SVCT2 transport the reduced form of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Sertoli cells control germ cell proliferation and differentiation through cell-cell communication and form the blood-testis barrier. Because the blood-testis barrier limits direct access of molecules from the plasma into the adluminal compartment of the seminiferous tubule, one important question is the method by which germ cells obtain vitamin C. Some interesting results have thrown light on this matter. Expression of SVCT2 and some isoforms of GLUT transporters in the testis have previously been described. Our group has demonstrated that Sertoli cells express functionally active vitamin C transporters. Kinetic characteristics were described for both transport systems (SVCT and GLUT systems). Sertoli cells are able to transport both forms of vitamin C. These fi ndings are extremely relevant, because Sertoli cells may control the amount of vitamin C in the adluminal compartment, as well as regulating the availability of this metabolite throughout spermatogenesis.

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“…genetic or developmental abnormalities) or due to secondary or extrinsic factors causing testicular or posttesticular injury (e.g. gonadotoxins, hyperthermia, oxidants, endocrine abnormalities) [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Investigators have suggested that protamine deficiency (with aberrant chromatin remodeling), reactive oxygen species (ROS) and abortive apoptosis may cause sperm DNA damage [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

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Which isolated sperm abnormality is most related to sperm DNA damage in men presenting for infertility evaluation

Belloc¹,

Benkhalifa²,

Cohen-Bacrie³

et al. 2014

J Assist Reprod Genet

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Background Sperm DNA damage is common in infertile men and is associated with poor semen parameters but the impact of an isolated sperm abnormality on sperm DNA damage has not been studied. Objective To evaluate sperm DNA damage in a large cohort of infertile men with isolated sperm defects. Design, setting and participants Retrospective study of 1084 consecutive, non-azoospermic infertile men with an isolated sperm defect: isolated oligozoospermia (iOligo), isolated asthenozoospermia (iAstheno) or isolated teratozoospermia (iTerato). Outcome measurements and statistical analysis We examined and compared clinical parameters, conventional semen parameters and %sperm DNA fragmentation (%SDF, assessed by flow cytometry-based Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP Nick End-Labeling assay) in the three groups of men. Results and limitations The mean (±SD) %SDF was significantly higher in the iAstheno compared to the iOligo and iTerato groups (25.0±14.0 vs. 19.2±11.6 and 20.7±12.1 %, respectively, P<0.0001). Similarly, the proportion of men with high %SDF (>30 %) was significantly higher in the iAstheno compared to the iOligo and iTerato groups (31 % vs. 18 % and 19 %, respectively, P<0.0001). In the group of 713 men with iAstheno, %SDF was positively correlated with paternal age (r=0.20, P<0.0001) and inversely correlated with %progressive motility (r=−0.18, P<0.0001). In the subset of 218 men with iTerato, %SDF was also positively correlated with paternal age (r=0.15, P=0.018) and inversely correlated with %progressive motility (r=−0.26, P=0.0001). Conclusions In this large cohort of infertile men with isolated sperm abnormalities, we have found that the sperm DNA fragmentation level is highest in the men with sperm motility defects and that 31 % of these men have high levels of sperm DNA fragmentation. The data indicate that poor motility is the sperm parameter abnormality most closely related to sperm DNA damage.

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Sperm chromatin damage associated with male smoking

Cited by 204 publications

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Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay: Its Clinical Use for Detecting Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Male Infertility and Comparisons With Other Techniques

Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay: Its Clinical Use for Detecting Sperm DNA Fragmentation in Male Infertility and Comparisons With Other Techniques

Vitamin C and oxidative stress in the seminiferous epithelium

Which isolated sperm abnormality is most related to sperm DNA damage in men presenting for infertility evaluation

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