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. 2022 Nov 30;10(12):744. doi: 10.3390/toxics10120744
SGA Small-for-gestational age
WHO World Health Organization
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer
AS2O3 Arsenic trioxide
CML Chronic myelogenous leukaemia
APL Acute promyelocytic leukaemia
TBARS Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances
HPG axis The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis
StAR The steroidogenic acute regulatory
3β-HSD 3β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
GIT Gastrointestinal tract
AQP Aquaglyceroporins
MFS Major facilitator superfamily
ABC ATP-binding cassette
As3MT Arsenite methyltransferase
MMA Monomethylarsonic acid
DMA Dimethylarsinic acid
As(V) Inorganic pentavalent arsenic
As(III) Inorganic trivalent arsenic
MMA(V) Methyl arsonate
DMA(V) Dimethyl arsenate
GSTO Glutathione S-transferase omega
GSSG Glutathione disulfide
As-GSH Arsenic glutathione
AsS Arsenic sulphide
AsB Arsenobetaine
ROS Reactive oxygen species
ICR Institute of Cancer Research
CC3 Cleaved caspase 3
CYP17A1 Cytochrome P450 17A1
DHT Dihydrotestosterone
SD Sprague Dawley
MLTC-1 Mouse testes Leydig tumor cell lines
MDA Malondialdehyde
NAPDH Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+)
NOX NAPDH oxidase
GPx Glutathione peroxidase
SOD Supeoxide dismutase
CAT Catalase
H2O2 Hydrogen peroxide
LOO Lipid peroxy radical
UMI Unexplained male infertility
VLBW Very low birth weight
PTB Preterm birth
EGCG Epigallocatechin-3-gallate
SMI Structural membrane integrity
FMI Functional membrane integrity
NAC N-Acetyl Cysteine
MSTD Mean seminiferous tubular diameter
MTBS Mean testicular biopsy scores
PCNA Proliferating cell nuclear antigen
DPDS Diphenyl diselenide
BTB Bllod testicular border