On environmental threats to male infertility

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-200

  Wilcox, Allen J ^a   Bonde, Jens Peter E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; NOTE; POLLUTANT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874626678     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2012.153     Document Type: Note

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