Research Article
Microbiota, Prostatitis, and Fertility: Bacterial Diversity as a Possible Health Ally
Table 2
Seminal quality and oxidative stress in prostatitis-like symptoms men and fertile men.
| | | Fertile group, control, median (range) | Prostatitis-like symptoms, median (range) | value |
| | Seminal volume (mL) | 4 (1.5–4.5) | 3 (1.5–7.5) | 0.7460 | | Progressive motility (%) | 55.5 (41.5–81.0) | 57 (6.0–64.0) | 0.6667 | | Nonprogressive motility (%) | 6.5 (2.0–16.0) | 6.0 (1.0–25.0) | 0.9524 | | Immotile spermatozoa (%) | 39.0 (17.0–45.0) | 42.0 (29.0–90.0) | 0.8016 | | Concentration/mL (106/mL) | 80.0 (40.5–270.0) | 205.0 (7.0–254.0) | 0.9444 | | Total concentration (106/ejaculate) | 178.2 (115.5–1080.0) | 431.8 (22.4–1538.0) | 0.8016 | | Viability (%) | 79.0 (77.0–90.0) | 70.0 (49.0–85.0) | 0.1667 | | Sperm with normal morphology (%) | 4.8 (4.2–8.6) | 4.4 (2.8–6.8) | 0.8016 | | Teratozoospermia index | 1.4 (1.1–1.5) | 1.2 (1.1–1.5) | 0.2222 | | High mitochondrial membrane potential (%) | 63.2 (44.2–7.5) | 50.0 (12.3–55.5) | 0.0556 | | Plasma membrane integrity (%) | 64.8 (48.1–84.4) | 35.8 (6.2–69.7) | 0.1508 | | ROS production (%) | 64.3 (50.5–86.2) | 55.7 (17.7–61.9) | 0.0556 | | DNA fragmentation index (%) | 10.6 (10.4–11.4) | 11.1 (10.5–14.3) | 0.3889 | | Membrane lipid peroxidation (%) | 49.8 (9.1–80.5) | 67.0 (44.9–93.3) | 0.4127 | | Antioxidant capacity of seminal plasma %) | 61.0 (45.3–81.4) | 62.0 (9.5–69.3) | 0.5317 | | Serum nitric oxide (µM) | 3.7 (2.1–13.0) | 3.0 (1.7–4.1) | 0.5000 | | Plasma nitric oxide (µM) | 1.5 (0.6–1.7) | 0.5 (0.2–1.9) | 0.3016 | | PSA (ng/mL) | 0.0 (0.0–1.4) | 0.9 (0.0–120.0) | 0.3651 |
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Mann–Whitney test. Data indicate median and range.
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