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Ina Olmer Specht1, Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde2, Gunnar Toft3

  • 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Bispebjerg University Hospital, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark; Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6919, USA.

Reproductive Toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.)
|July 27, 2015
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Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) exposure may affect male reproductive hormones. Higher HCB levels were linked to altered sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) and free androgen index (FAI) in fertile men, but semen quality remained unaffected.

Keywords:
AntiandrogenEndocrine disrupterFertilityHexachlorobenzeneReproductionReproductive hormones

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