Exposure to ambient air pollution-does it affect semen quality and the level of reproductive hormones?

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 50-56

  Radwan, Michał ^a   Jurewicz, Joanna ^b   Polańska, Kinga ^b   Sobala, Wojciech ^b   Radwan, Paweł ^a   Bochenek, Michał ^c   Hanke, Wojciech ^b  

^a Gameta Hospital   (Poland)

^b NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; level of reproductive hormones; semen quality; sperm DNA damage

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; CHROMATIN; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHROMATIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84954070119     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2015.1013986     Document Type: Article

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