Biology and Medicine

Anna Flavia Rispoli

Publications

• Research Article
  Heavy Metals in Semen of Oligospermic Patients without Known Etiologic Factors
  Author(s): Anna Flavia Rispoli, Guglielmo Stabile, Carminia Marina Ingenito and Mariano StabileAnna Flavia Rispoli, Guglielmo Stabile, Carminia Marina Ingenito and Mariano Stabile
  
  Environmental contaminants, heavy metals and pesticides, could be a cause for oligoasthenospermia. Analyses of the five heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Hg, Ni, and Cu) have showed values that are above the normal range in oligospermic patients in a selected group. We used blood values to ascertain reference values for heavy metal concentrations, as there is a lack of baseline values for seminal plasma in previously published papers. Three recent research projects in the same area of southern Italy (“Land of fires” in Campania and Sicily) have shown correlation between environmental pollution from heavy metals and oligospermia. At the Zygote Center in Salerno (Campania, Italy), a group comprising 200 couples with fertility problems was monitored over a 2-year period. A group of eight oligospermic men was selected according to the following criteria: (1) absence of genetic factors; (2) ab.. View More»
  

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