The environment and male reproduction: The effect of cadmium exposure on reproductive function and its implication in fertility

C De Angelis, M Galdiero, C Pivonello, C Salzano… - Reproductive …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cadmium is an environmental pollutant known as endocrine disruptor. Testis is particularly
susceptible to cadmium, and testis injury occurs at high but even low levels of exposure …

Cadmium as a testicular toxicant: A Review

JK Bhardwaj, H Panchal, P Saraf - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal with no known biological functions in the human body.
Due to a considerably long biological half‐life and very low rate of excretion, accumulation …

Cadmium: toxic effects on the reproductive system and the embryo

J Thompson, J Bannigan - Reproductive toxicology, 2008 - Elsevier
The heavy metal cadmium (Cd) is a pollutant associated with several modern industrial
processes. Cd is absorbed in significant quantities from cigarette smoke, and is known to …

Cadmium toxicity: effects on human reproduction and fertility

S Kumar, A Sharma - Reviews on environmental health, 2019 - degruyter.com
Abstract Background Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential toxic heavy metal, an environmental
toxicant, and toxic at a low concentration, and it has no known beneficial role in the human …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of cadmium-induced testicular injury: a risk to male fertility

W Ali, Y Ma, J Zhu, H Zou, Z Liu - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cadmium is a heavy toxic metal with unknown biological functions in the human body. Over
time, cadmium accretion in the different visceral organs (liver, lungs, kidney, and testis) is …

Cadmium, arsenic, and lead: elements affecting male reproductive health

BT Lovaković - Current opinion in toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
The decline of male fertility has become a serious public health concern over the last
decades, coinciding with an increase in environmental exposure to toxic pollutants. Toxic …

Cadmium increases human fetal germ cell apoptosis

G Angenard, V Muczynski, H Coffigny… - Environmental …, 2010 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Cadmium (Cd) is a common environmental pollutant and a major constituent of
tobacco smoke. Adverse effects of this heavy metal on reproductive function have been …

[HTML][HTML] Toxicological effects of cadmium on mammalian testis

Q Zhu, X Li, RS Ge - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cadmium is a heavy metal, and people are exposed to it through contaminated foods and
smoking. In humans and other mammals, cadmium causes damage to male testis. In this …

Cadmium-induced testicular injury

ER Siu, DD Mruk, CS Porto, CY Cheng - Toxicology and applied …, 2009 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) is an environmental toxicant and an endocrine disruptor in humans and
rodents. Several organs (eg, kidney, liver) are affected by Cd and recent studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Reproductive effects of cadmium on sperm function and early embryonic development in vitro

L Zhao, Y Ru, M Liu, J Tang, J Zheng, B Wu, Y Gu… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Cadmium is a major environmental toxicant that is released into the atmosphere, water and
soil in the form of cadmium oxide, cadmium chloride, or cadmium sulfide via industrial …