The main water-soluble compounds in RSM, salvianic acid A and salvianolic acid B, may play a role in the RSM-mediated treatment of infertility by ameliorating oxidative stress-induced damage in H2O2-exposed human granulosa cells by inhibiting the overexpression of cleaved caspase-3, cleaved caspase-9, and tumor necrosis factor-α (Liang et al., 2021). Here, CASP9 is linked to Infertility.