Temporal trends in bull semen quality: A comparative model for human health?

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-280

  Wahl, Robert L ^a   Reif, John S ^b  

^a MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejaculate volume; Semen quality; Sperm concentration; Sperm morphology; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ABNORMALITY; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPERM; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BULL (BOVINE); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EJACULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREND STUDY; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 61749094454     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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