Avoiding toxins including spermatotoxic medications

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 286-292

  Stearns, Gillian ^a   Turek, Paulj ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Turek Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

azoospermia; male infertility; medications; semen analysis; toxicology

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; AZATHIOPRINE; BUSULFAN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CIMETIDINE; CISPLATIN; CLOZAPINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HALOPERIDOL; IMIPRAMINE; INFLIXIMAB; LITHIUM; MERCAPTOPURINE; NITROFURAN; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PERPHENAZINE; PROCARBAZINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SERTRALINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; SULFADIAZINE; SULFANILAMIDE; THIORIDAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZIPRASIDONE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EJACULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; LIBIDO; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OLIGOSPERMIA; PENIS ERECTION; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING; SPERM; SPERM MORPHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MORPHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFERTILITY, MALE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; RISK FACTORS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 84879225215     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1345276     Document Type: Article

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