Environmental exposure to arsenic may reduce human semen quality: Associations derived from a Chinese cross-sectional study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Weipan ^a   Bao, Huaqiong ^b   Liu, Feng ^a   Liu, Liangpo ^a   Zhu, Yong Guan ^a   She, Jianwen ^c   Dong, Sijun ^a   Cai, Min ^b   Li, Lianbing ^b   Li, Chuanhai ^b   Shen, Heqing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chongqing Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; China; Cross sectional study; Human reproduction; Semen quality

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; INFERTILITY; MENS HEALTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RODENT; SMOKING; URINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; ARSENIC; CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA;

EID: 84865219207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-11-46     Document Type: Article

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