Ultimately, a shift in redox state limits the ability to stay awake: intracerebroventricular infusion of oxidized glutathione into the brain increases time spent asleep [19,25]
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Besides their role in mediating lipid peroxidation, ROS especially nitric oxide (NO ), and OH (92), have also been shown to attach to sperm DNA molecules causing excessive modifications and deletions in their nucleotide bases and strand breakages, along with other multiple genotoxic effects (93)
The exact mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are not known