Semen quality of environmentally exposed human population: The toxicological consequence

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 8274-8281

  Pant, Niraj ^a   Pant, A B ^b,c   Chaturvedi, P K ^a   Shukla, M ^d   Mathur, N ^b,c   Gupta, Y K ^a   Saxena, D K ^b,c  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^d KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cadmium; DDT; HCH; Lead; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CADMIUM; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; LEAD; LINDANE; METAL; PESTICIDE;

CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HCH; LEAD; MENS HEALTH; MOTILITY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPERM; TOXICOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICS;

CADMIUM; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEAD; LINDANE; MALE; METALS; PESTICIDES; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84885900008     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1813-8     Document Type: Article

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