Chronic Exposure to Heavy Metals Declines Sperm Quality and Damages Tissue Architecture

P-63: Chronic Exposure to Gly-Phosate; Evidence for Testicular Toxicity and Sperm Parameters

Background: Glyphosate (GPT) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf and grasses known to compete with commercial crops grown around the globe. According to United States environmental protection agency the chemical has been reported as a third class toxin. Present study was designed in order to evaluate GPT-induced detrimental effects on testicula...

P-31: Chronic Exposure to Imidacloprid Reduced Sperm Content, Motility and Viability

s:2011:"Background: Imidacloprid (IMD) is a systemic insecticide which acts as an insect neurotoxin and belongs to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system of insects. According to previous studies, IMD is rated as "moderately toxic" on an acute oral basis to mammals and according to United States Environmental Protection Agency this compound is cla...

G.I.S. Surveillance of Chronic Non-occupational Exposure to Heavy Metals as Oncogenic Risk

Introduction The potential oncogenic effect of some heavy metals in people occupationally and non-occupationally exposed to such heavy metals is already well demonstrated. This study seeks to clarify the potential role of these heavy metals in the living environment, in this case in non-occupational multifactorial aetiology of malignancies in the inhabitants of areas with increased prevalent en...

Dietary Exposure to Heavy Metals of Secondary School Students

Levels of Heavy Metals in Popular Cigarette Brands and Exposure to These Metals via Smoking

The levels of selected heavy metals in popular cigarette brands sold and/or produced in Saudi Arabia were determined by graphite furnace-atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS). Average concentrations of Cadmium and Lead in different cigarette brands were 1.81 and 2.46 μg g⁻¹ (dry weight), respectively. The results obtained in this study estimate the average quantity of Cd inhaled from smoking o...