Jeanne Perrin, MD, PhD, La Conception University Hospital of Marseille and Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology, Aix-Marseille University, France
Basic and Clinical Andrology is calling for submissions to our Collection on Occupational Exposures and Male Reproduction.
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In men, a significant overall decline of reproductive health indicators (semen quality, genital malformations, testis cancer) is reported since early ‘90s. Global and local factors are taken into account to explain this trend and many environmental contaminants have been identified as potentially harmful for male reproduction.
Among them, occupational exposure have been poorly investigated. Yet, job-related activities may expose men to many reprotoxic situations such as specific chemical pollutants, physical conditions and/or organizational constraints.
Importantly, the exposure duration and intensity in occupational reprotoxic situations may be much higher than in general and domestic environment, although prevention has been developed in occupational health.
Moreover, the reprotoxicity of occupational exposures in male patients are generally not addressed by reproduction practitioners nor by occupational physicians, due to a lack of knowledge about the impact of these exposures on male fertility, pregnancy outcome and reproductive health.
In this article Collection, we invite researchers to submit their original research articles, reviews, meta-analysis or shorter perspective articles on all aspects related to the theme of “Occupational exposure and male reproduction” in male humans, including impacts on male testicular function, fertility, sperm nucleus quality, progeny or reproductive health.
The objective of this Collection is to help promoting awareness of all clinicians about the potential reprotoxic risks posed by male occupational exposures, with the aim of supporting prevention and detection.
There are currently no articles in this collection.
This Collection welcomes submission of original research articles, reviews, meta-analysis or shorter perspective articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Occupational Exposure and Male Reproduction" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.