Plasma 17-α-OH-progesterone in male workers exposed to traffic pollutants

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 170-176

  Tomei, Gianfranco ^a   Ciarrocca, Manuela ^a   Bernardini, Andrea ^a   Capozzella, Assuntina ^a   Rosati, Maria Valeria ^a   Anzelmo, Vincenza ^b   Caciari, Tiziana ^a   Cardella, Claudia ^a   Monti, Carlo ^a   Tomei, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Municipality of Rome ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Male reproductive health; Plasma 17 hydroxy progesterone; Stressor; Traffic policemen; Traffic pollutants

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYPROGESTERONE;

ACROSOME; ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEYDIG CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEMORY; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; POLLUTANT; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 33846881810     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.170     Document Type: Article

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