Are environmental levels of bisphenol A associated with reproductive function in fertile men?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1286-1291

  Mendiola, Jaime ^a   Jørgensen, Niels ^b   Andersson, Anna Maria ^b   Calafat, Antonia M ^c   Ye, Xiaoyun ^c   Redmon, J Bruce ^d   Drobnis, Erma Z ^e   Wang, Christina ^f   Sparks, Amy ^g   Thurston, Sally W ^a   Liu, Fan ^a   Swan, Shanna H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e University of Missouri   (United States)

^f LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; Endocrine disruptors; Male hormones; Semen quality; Xenoestrogens

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN; CREATININE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ETHNICITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPOUSE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOLS; SEMEN; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

RODENTIA;

EID: 77956791365     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002037     Document Type: Article

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