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Scientists already knew that links could be drawn between air pollution and increased risk of certain disorders - ranging from obesity to diabetes and fertility - mostly because of stressful messages sent from the brain.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have shown how air pollution reduces sperm count in mice, by causing inflammation in the brain.
"Our findings showed that the damage due to air pollution - at least to the sperm count - could be remedied by removing a single inflammation marker in the brains of mice, suggesting that we may be able to develop therapies that could prevent or reverse the damaging effects of air pollution on fertility," Zhekang Ying, lead study author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMSOM, said.
Published in September in the science review Environmental Health Perspectives, the latest study tried to plot the origins of a worldwide decline in the sperm count observed over the past decades.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have shown how air pollution reduces sperm count in mice, by causing inflammation in the brain.
"Our findings showed that the damage due to air pollution - at least to the sperm count - could be remedied by removing a single inflammation marker in the brains of mice, suggesting that we may be able to develop therapies that could prevent or reverse the damaging effects of air pollution on fertility," Zhekang Ying, lead study author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMSOM, said.
Published in September in the science review Environmental Health Perspectives, the latest study tried to plot the origins of a worldwide decline in the sperm count observed over the past decades.
Is the air we're breathing reducing sperm counts? Scientists think so
The study by the University of Maryland has drawn the dots between breathing polluted air and impaired fertility in men.
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