Human urinary/seminal phthalates or their metabolite levels and semen quality: A meta-analysis

Environmental Research

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 486-494

  Cai, Hongquan ^a   Zheng, Weiwei ^a   Zheng, Pai ^b   Wang, Shu ^a   Tan, Hui ^a   He, Gengsheng ^a   Qu, Weidong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Medical Association ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Meta analysis; Phthalates; Semen quality; Urinary metabolite levels

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIDEMIOLOGY; META-ANALYSIS; METABOLITE; PHTHALATE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERM; URINE;

ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; MALE; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URINE;

DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PHTHALIC ACIDS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84939209295     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.07.008     Document Type: Article

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