Environmental and Occupational Exposures : Reproductive Impairment

Contents A From Editors 1 Structure and Physiology of Mammalian TestisM Rajalakshmi RS Sharma and PC Pal 2 Female Reproductive SystemTarala D Nandedkar 3 Reproductive Toxicity Testing under the REACH LegislationUlrike Bernauer and Barbara Heinrich-Hirsch 4 Role of Environment Occupational Exposure Life Style and Diet on Free Radical Induced Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Reproductive FailureS Venkatesh R Kumar D Pathak MB Shamsi M Tanwar R Deecaraman and R Dada 5 Environmental Factors on Semen QualitySatish Kumar Adiga and Guruprasad Kalthur 6 Testicular Hyperthermia and its Effect on Male Reproductive HealthS Venkatesh R Deecaraman and R Dada 7 The Impact of Air Pollution on Reproductive HealthRajvi HMehta 8 Pesticide Exposure and Male Reproduction with Reference to Oxidative StressOli Sarkar and PP Mathur 9 Oxidative Stress and Reproductive Function with Special Reference to Environmental and Occupational ExposureSS du Plessis F Lampiao N Desai and A Agarwal 10 Inevitable Contaminant of Water-Fluoride A Non-Skeletal Study on RatsD Agrawal JBS Kachhawa TI Khan and RS Gupta 11 Impact of Fluoride on Male ReproductionMH Trivedi RJ Verma and Neha P Sangai 12 Persistent Chemicals Infertility and EndometriosisRoya Rozati G Simha Baludu D Srikant and V Srilaxmi 13 Occupational and Environmental Exposure to Chemicals and Reproductive OutcomeSunil Kumar Shagufta Shaikh AK Gautam VV Mishra and H Doshi 14 Perspectives in Reproductive Toxicity of Heavy MetalsSVS Rana 15 Household Detergents Their Toxic Potential- Possible Reproductive EffectsJaimala Sharma 16 Visual Display Terminal Usage and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes An OverviewRajnarayan R Tiwari 17 Shift and Long Working Hour and ReproductionAsim Saha B IndexThe book describes about the effect of various environmental factors on the reproductive system of human beings and experimental animals The book opens with the description of the normal human reproductive system and the functions of different organs both in males and females It is a lucid mixture of conventional environmental exposures like chemicals and pollutants and the recent exposures at workplace such as shift work and electromagnetic radiations The mechanism for the reproductive toxicity caused by these factors is nicely explained in a chapter on oxidative stress It also put an insight into newer concepts like REACH for preventing the ill effects of environmental exposures on reproductive system Thus it is a right choice for all those engaged in the field of toxicology especially reproductive toxicology 417 pp.…