Reproduction Abstracts

Declining human fertility has become a serious public health problem in many countries around the world. There is a rapidly growing number of evidence that human reproductive health is negatively affected by various environmental factors including life style and exposure to chemical compounds such as pesticides, phthalates, and bisphenol A (BPA). The aim of our study is to understand how commonly used pesticides can affect meiosis, the central event of mammalian gametogenesis....