Low lead environmental exposure alters semen quality and sperm chromatin condensation in northern Mexico

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 221-228

  Hernández Ochoa, Isabel ^a   García Vargas, Gonzalo ^b,c   López Carrillo, Lizbeth ^d   Rubio Andrade, Marisela ^b   Morán Martínez, Javier ^c   Cebrián, Mariano E ^a   Quintanilla Vega, Betzabet ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ DEL ESTADO DE DURANGO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE COAHUILA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Male reproductive system; Pb toxicity; Semen quality; Seminal fluid; Sperm chromatin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LEAD; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MEXICO; MORPHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; CHROMATIN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; ZINC;

EID: 19444371516     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2005.01.007     Document Type: Article

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