Effect of agropesticides use on male reproductive function: A study on farmers in Djutitsa (Cameroon)

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 423-432

  Manfo, Faustin Pascal Tsagué ^a,b   Moundipa, Paul Fewou ^a   Déchaud, Henri ^b,c   Tchana, Angèle Nkouatchoua ^a   Nantia, Edouard Akono ^a   Zabot, Marie Thérèse ^b,d   Pugeat, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Hormonologie   (France)

^d Centre de Biotechnologie Cellulaire   (France)

Author keywords

Agropesticides; Androstenedione; Human; Reproduction; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AGROPESTICIDES; ANDROSTENEDIONE; HUMAN; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

BODY FLUIDS; HORMONES; PESTICIDES;

AGRICULTURE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; BENOMYL; CARBENDAZIM; CHLOROTHALONIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; CIPERMETHRIN; DIMETHOATE; DIURON; ESTRADIOL; ETHOPROP; FOLLITROPIN; GLYPHOSATE; LINURON; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALATHION; MANCOZEB; MANEB; METALAXYL; OXAMYL; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; PROFENOFOS; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGROCHEMICAL; BIOAVAILABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; INHIBITION; MALE; PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SERUM; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; CANDIDIASIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIZZINESS; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTION DIFFICULTY; EYE DISEASE; EYE IRRITATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GARDENING; GONORRHEA; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NAUSEA; OBESITY; PENIS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RASH; REPRODUCTION; SCROTAL PAIN; SYPHILIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CAMEROON; ESTRADIOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PESTICIDES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

CAMEROON; OUEST PROVINCE;

EID: 84862676800     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20656     Document Type: Article

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