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Does exposure to inhalation anesthesia gases change the ratio of X-bearing sperms and Y-bearing Sperms? A worth exploring project into an uncharted domain
- Source :
- Medical hypotheses. 94
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- According to recent surveys performed in United States and India, anesthesia care providers were observed to have sired female offspring in a higher proportion than male offspring as their firstborn progeny; however, the reasons for the skew are not clear. Our hypothesis is that the underlying biological evidence may be elucidated by unraveling differences (if any) between the concentrations of X-bearing sperms and Y-bearing sperms in the semen samples obtained from males exposed to varied levels of anesthetics in their lifetimes. Therefore, the objectives of the envisaged study would be to conduct a three-stage investigative study on in-vitro human semen samples to determine (a) X-bearing sperms and Y-bearing sperms concentrations' ratio in male pediatric anesthesia care providers' semen samples, (b) changes in X-bearing sperms and Y-bearing sperms concentrations' ratios between the pre-rotation and post-rotation semen samples of male medical student volunteers/observers, and (c) changes in X-bearing sperms and Y-bearing sperms concentrations' ratios between the pre-operative and post-operative day-3 semen samples of male patients presenting for outpatient procedures under inhalational anesthesia. The expected outcomes would be (a) linear and positive correlation of the anesthetic gas usage (exposure) with increased X-bearing sperms/Y-bearing sperms ratio in post-anesthesia day 3 sample as compared to the baseline preoperative sample, (b) linear and positive correlation of the anesthetic gas usage (exposure) with increased X-bearing sperms/Y-bearing sperms ratio in post-rotation sample as compared to the baseline sample, and (c) observation of high X-bearing sperms/Y-bearing sperms ratio in the pediatric anesthesia care providers. In summary, effects (if any) of occupational or personal exposure to inhalational anesthetic gases on the X-bearing sperms and Y-bearing sperms ratio is a worthy project wherein lots of questions that have arisen over decades could find the path to their definitive answers, based on envisaged laboratory investigations into this uncharted domain.
- Subjects :
- Male
endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty
Students, Medical
Offspring
Physiology
India
Semen
Positive correlation
Inhalation anesthesia
Body Mass Index
03 medical and health sciences
Y-Bearing Sperms
0302 clinical medicine
030202 anesthesiology
Occupational Exposure
Medicine
Humans
Pediatricians
Postoperative Period
Sex Ratio
reproductive and urinary physiology
In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
Gynecology
Chromosomes, Human, X
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
Chromosomes, Human, Y
urogenital system
business.industry
General Medicine
Models, Theoretical
X-Bearing Sperms
Spermatozoa
Healthy Volunteers
United States
Anesthetic
Anesthetics, Inhalation
Preoperative Period
Female
Gases
business
Sex ratio
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15322777
- Volume :
- 94
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medical hypotheses
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....861cdc7e30d54a6fca80e4aa61e57f15