Increased seminal plasma lead levels adversely affect the fertility potential of sperm in IVF

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 374-383

  Benoff, Susan ^a,b   Centola, Grace M ^c,f,g   Millan, Colleen ^a   Napolitano, Barbara ^a,d   Marmar, Joel L ^e   Hurley, Ian R ^a  

^a Room 125 ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York   (United States)

^g REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE ASSOCIATES OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Atomic absorption spectroscopy; IVF; Male infertility; Seminal plasma lead

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEAD; LEUPRORELIN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE RECEPTOR; METAL ION; PROGNYL; UROFOLLITROPIN; ZINC;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERM DONOR; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037326856     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg020     Document Type: Article

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