Semen quality in relation to xenohormone and dioxin-like serum activity among inuits and three european populations

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue SUPPL1, 2007, Pages 15-20

  Toft, Gunnar ^a   Long, Manhai ^b   Krüger, Tanja ^b   Hjelmborg, Philip S ^b   Bonde, Jens Peter ^a   Rignell Hydbom, Anna ^c   Tyrkiel, Ewa ^d   Hagmar, Lars ^c   Giwercman, Aleksander ^e   Spanó, Marcello ^f   Bizzaro, Davide ^g   Pedersen, Henning S ^h   Lesovoy, Vladymir ⁱ   Ludwicki, Jan K ^d   Bonefeld Jørgensen, Eva C ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^h Centre for Arctic Environmental Medicine   (Greenland)

ⁱ Regional Clinical Center of Urology and Nephrology   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Calux; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen receptor; Human; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESKIMO; EUROPE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIOXINS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 40949160699     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9352     Document Type: Article

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