A Survey of Semen Indices in Insecticide Sprayers

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-118

  Kamijima, Michihiro ^a   Hibi, Hatsuki ^b   Gotoh, Masahiro ^b   Taki, Ken Ichi ^b   Saito, Isao ^c   Wang, Hailan ^a   Itohara, Seiichiro ^a   Yamada, Tetsuya ^a   Ichihara, Gaku ^a   Shibata, Eiji ^c   Nakajima, Tamie ^a   Takeuchi, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Indoor pesticide sprayer; Occupational exposure; Organophosphorus insecticide; Pyrethroid insecticide; Semen study; Sperm morphology; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; FOLLITROPIN; INSECTICIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PYRETHROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT; SUMMER; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WINTER; WORKER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; JAPAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEASONS; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 11144356839     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.46.109     Document Type: Review

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