Research Progress of Cadmium Toxicity on Male Reproduction Health

Cadmium is an element of heavy metal which can be harmful to environment and human beings with the rapid development of industry, cadmium as an important raw material causes serious pollution to the environment. It is stable in the environment and the biological half-life of it can be 10 to 30 years, difficult to degrade but easy to accumulate. Cadmium can exert toxic effects to many organs and tissues of human being and experiment al animals, and its toxic effect on reproductive system has caught more and more attentions many research being done on it. This paper tries to over view the relative research about Cadmium toxicity on male reproduction.