Effect of Oxidative Stress on Reproduction and Development—3rd Edition
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2026 | Viewed by 800
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Interests: climate change and reprotoxicity; antioxidative physiological defense; steroids and steroid receptors; antioxidants under steroid control; reproductive health assessment; endangered species and validation of non-destructive examination methods; biodiversity conservation microassay
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Interests: oxidative stress monitoring; reactive oxygen species; analytical and physico-chemical methods; electron paramagnetic resonance; non-invasive environmental monitoring; spectroscopic methods
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Dear Colleagues,
Our previous Special Issue on the "Effect of Oxidative Stress on Reproduction and Development—2nd Edition", published in the 2024 volume of Antioxidants, received an overwhelming number of submissions and was a successful compilation of research and review articles. As this is a rapidly evolving topic, we would like to further explore the role of Oxidative Stress in reproduction health with a follow-up Special Issue for the year 2025.
Stressors, by inducing physiological and reproductive disorders, determine failures in various cellular processes, such as development, differentiation, growth, regeneration, and regression, threatening the survival of living species. Although the definite role of free radicals and antioxidants is well established, there is sparse knowledge of their role in a multitude of stressors such as climate change, temperature fluctuations, osmotic stress, alterations in oxygen availability, and other anthropogenic impacts, all factors which can directly affect free radical overexpression during reproduction. Therefore, we cordially invite authors to contribute to this Special Issue with original research articles and reviews on animal reproduction, creating overview on the interplay between mitochondrial metabolism and ROS during gametogenesis and embryogenesis and on how oxidative stress can influence these physiological processes in human reproduction. We also acknowledge studies on the latest techniques developed to select gametes and embryos based on their redox state and the treatments developed to manage the oxidative stress in assisted reproduction to improve the chances of pregnancy. Critical and objective perspectives on hormones and vitamins and on factors that limit or facilitate fertility and fertilization also fall within the scope of this Special Issue. Data collected in this issue may represent a new opportunity to answer basic questions on one-health conservation and sustainability and indicate to us how we can perform assessments by oxidant and/or antioxidant detection.
Prof. Dr. Giulia Guerriero
Prof. Dr. Gerardino D’Errico
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- free radicals and antioxidants
- oxidative stress in male and female reproduction
- mitochondria
- gametogenesis
- assisted reproduction
- thermal fertility limit (TFL)
- climate change
- one-health
- biodiversity conservation and sustainability
- reproduction
- development and nutrigenomics
- methods for reactive oxygen species detection and antioxidant property determination.
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