Semen quality and reproductive endocrine function with regard to blood cadmium in Croatian male subjects

BioMetals

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 735-743

  Jurasović, Jasna ^a   Cvitković, Petar ^b   Pizent, Alica ^a   Čolak, Božo ^b   Telišman, Spomenka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

^b University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Human male reproductive function; Nonoccupational cadmium exposure; Sex hormones; Smoking; Toxic and essential metals interaction

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; ERYTHROCYTE PROTOPORPHYRIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYME; LEAD; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; PROLACTIN; SELENIUM; TESTOSTERONE; ZINC; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROATIA; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TIME;

ADULT; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; COPPER; CROATIA; ESTRADIOL; FERTILITY; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEAD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTOPORPHYRINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELENIUM; SEMEN; SMOKING; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TIME FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 18444379365     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-004-1689-7     Document Type: Article

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