New Mechanism For Male Infertility Discovered
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 00:20
in Health & Medicine
A new study in Sweden links male infertility to autoimmune prostatic inflammation. Infertility - involuntary childlessness - is common, and in half of all cases attributable to infertility in the man. Although male infertility has many possible causes, it often remains unexplained. In the present study, researchers from Karolinska Institutet discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general. read more