The Relationship between Environmental Exposure to Phthalates and Computer-Aided Sperm Analysis Motion Parameters

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 293-302

  Duty, Susan M ^a,b   Calafat, Antonia M ^h   Silva, Manori J ^c   Brock, John W ^c   Ryan, Louise ^a,d   Chen, Zuying ^e   Overstreet, James ^f   Hauser, Russ ^a,e,g  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MA Department of Public Health   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Environment; Epidemiology; Human phthalate

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID; PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYLHEXYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID BENZYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID BUTYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID METHYL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; COMPUTER AIDED SPERM ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; CURVILINEAR VELOCITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEARITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPERM MOTION; SPERM VELOCITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIGHT LINE VELOCITY; URINALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 1242275292     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2004.tb02790.x     Document Type: Article

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