Therefore the overall impact on fertility that ROS has is not a matter of if it is there or not (as mentioned earlier, some oxidative stress is required for various reproductive physiological functions), but when levels of ROS are too high (or antioxidant levels are too low) it becomes pathological to sperm and the ability to get pregnant
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Those target genes include heme oxygenase 1 (HMOX-1), the main regulator of iron and heme metabolism (Suzen et al., 2022), NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO-1), a reducer of ROS (quinones) (Ross and Siegel, 2021), and peroxiredoxin (PRX), which reduces peroxides (Chowdhury et al., 2009), among many others
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