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ArticleScience advances2026

Epididymal macrophage senescence contributes to sperm motility decrease upon environmental stress.

Xin-Run Wang, Hao Li, Yong-Wei Xiong, Zhi Yuan, Xin-Yi Cheng, Yi-Fan Hu, Xiao-Jin He, Long-Long Fan, Ye-Xin Luo, Jian Sun and 10 more

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Article in Science advances, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Xin-Run WangDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0002-2375-0288
Hao LiDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4870-7596
Yong-Wei XiongDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0003-6988-7578
Zhi YuanDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0002-6557-8682
Xin-Yi ChengDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0008-0761-4466
Yi-Fan HuDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0002-0252-4388
Xiao-Jin HeNHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5919-8478
Long-Long FanDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0006-9308-665X
Ye-Xin LuoDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0008-2478-1784
Jian SunDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0003-0681-9279
Cheng-Fang SunDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0000-2477-9504
Xin-Xin ZhangDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0005-0388-6323
Yan WangAnhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0006-8520-9453
Qi LuDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0008-1002-4870
Kai-Wen WangDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0001-8021-0803
Lu-Lu TanDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0006-8088-9031
Xiao-Han JiangAnhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7872-2703
Hua-Long ZhuDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0009-0006-5067-6297
De-Xiang XuDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5126-4335
Hua WangDepartment of Toxicology, Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1506-6742

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental stressors-induced male infertility has become a major public health issue. Sperm motility is the key to conception. However, the immunological mechanism for environmental stress-induced sperm motility reduction remains unknown. Our experiments find that three classical environmental stressors, including lead, cadmium, and mercury, are the key heavy metals reducing sperm motility. We reveal that environmental stress induces epididymal macrophage senescence, whereas the clearance of above cells significantly alleviates environmental stress-reduced sperm motility. In vivo and in vitro experiments further demonstrate that environmental stress induces macrophage senescence via down-regulating

Indexed as

Cellular SenescenceEpididymisMacrophagesSperm MotilityStress, PhysiologicalAnimalsForkhead Box Protein O3Infertility, MaleMaleMiceForkhead Box Protein O3

Identifiers

PMID41758944
PMCPMC12947854

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