Effects of bisphenol A on male and couple reproductive health: a review

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 864-870

  Mínguez Alarcón, Lidia ^a   Hauser, Russ ^a,b   Gaskins, Audrey J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; epidemiology; hormones; male reproductive; semen quality

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; GONADOTROPIN; POLLUTANT; SEX HORMONE;

DIET; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION; TIME TO PREGNANCY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOZOON;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84989941557     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.07.1118     Document Type: Review

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