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ReviewThe Journal of reproduction and development2026

Effect of environmental contamination on male and female gametes.

Zvi Roth, Dorit Kalo

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Review in The Journal of reproduction and development, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zvi RothDepartment of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Dorit KaloDepartment of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current review describes the risk associated with exposing both male and female gametes to environmental contaminants. It discusses representative compounds: some of them are synthetic chemicals (e.g., industrial and pharmaceutical compounds), whereas others are naturally occurring toxins (e.g., mycotoxins). The review also points out the impact of exposure to a mixture of compounds as well as simultaneously exposing to more than one stressor, to better highlight the risk of mixture exposure. Nowadays, most of the data are based on rodent models or from epidemiological human studies. However, less is known about the effects of environmental contaminants on domestic animal gametes. This is pointed out in the current review.

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Environmental ExposureEnvironmental PollutantsGerm CellsSpermatozoaAnimalsFemaleHumansMaleEnvironmental PollutantsDomestic animalsEnvironmental contaminantsGametes

Identifiers

PMID42309740
PMCPMC13286711

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