The relation between urinary metabolite of pyrethroid insecticides and semen quality in humans

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1743-1750

  Xia, Yankai ^a   Han, Yan ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Wang, Shoulin ^a   Gu, Aihua ^a   Lu, Ningxia ^a   Bo, Jianling ^a   Song, Lin ^a   Jin, Nianzu ^a   Wang, Xinru ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3 phenoxybenzoic acid (3 PBA); human urine; metabolite; pyrethroids; semen quality

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PYRETHROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; URINE; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; BENZOATES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATININE; EJACULATION; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; PYRETHRINS; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 44349148349     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.049     Document Type: Article

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