Exposure by males to light emitted from media devices at night is linked with decline of sperm quality and correlated with sleep quality measures

References

• Adam EK, Snell EK, Pendry P. 2007. Sleep timing and quantity in ecological and family context: a nationally representative time diary study. J Fam Psychol. 21(1):4–9. doi:10.1037/0893-3200.21.1.4.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Adams JA, Galloway TS, Mondal D, Esteves SC, Mathews F. 2014. Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Environ Int. 70:106–112. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2014.04.015.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Åkerstedt T, Gillberg M. 1990. Subjective and objective sleepiness in the active individual. Int J Neurosci. 52:29–37. doi:10.3109/00207459008994241.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Awad H, Halawa F, Mostafa T, Atta H. 2006. Melatonin hormone profile in infertile males. Int J Androl. 29(3):409–413. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2605.2005.00624.x.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Brunborg GS, Mentzoni RA, Molde H, Myrseth H, Skouveroe KJ, Bjorvatn B, Allesen S. 2011. The relationship between media use in the bedroom, sleep habits and symptoms of insomnia. J Sleep Res. 20(4):569–575. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2869.2011.00913.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buysse DJ, Reynolds CF, Monk TH, Berman SR, Kupfer DJ. 1989. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index: a new instrument for psychiatric practice and research. Psychiatry Res. 28:193–213.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cain N, Gradisar M. 2010. Electronic media use and sleep in school-aged children and adolescents: a review. Sleep Med. 11(8):735–742. doi:10.1016/0165-1781(89)90047-4.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cajochen C, Frey S, Anders D, Späti J, Bues M, Pross A, Roenneberg T. 2011. Evening exposure to a light-emitting diodes (LED) backlit computer screen affects circadian physiology and cognitive performance. J Appl Physiol. 110(5):1432–1438. doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00165.2011.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chang AM, Aeschbach D, Duffy JF, Czeisler CA. 2015. Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 112(4):1232–1237. doi:10.1073/pnas.1418490112.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chen Q, Yang H, Zhou N,Sun L, Bao H, Tan L, Chen H, Ling X, Zhang G, Huang L, Li L. 2016. Inverse U-shaped association between sleep duration and semen quality: longitudinal observational study (MARHCS) in Chongqing, China. Sleep. 39:79–86. doi:10.5665/sleep.5322.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chiu YH, Afeiche MC, Gaskins AJ, Williams PL, Petrozza JC, Tanrikut C, Hauser R, Chavarro JE. 2015. Fruit and vegetable intake and their pesticide residues in relation to semen quality among men from a fertility clinic. Hum Reprod. 30(6):1342–1351. doi:10.1093/humrep/dev064.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Custers K, Van den Bulck J. 2012. Television viewing, internet use, and self-reported bedtime and rise time in adults: implications for sleep hygiene recommendations from an exploratory cross-sectional study. Behav Sleep Med. 10(2):96–105. doi:10.1080/15402002.2011.596599.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Du Plessis SS, Hagenaar K, Lampiao F. 2010. The in vitro effects of melatonin on human sperm function and its scavenging activities on NO and ROS. Andrologia. 42(2):112–116. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0272.2009.00964.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Figueiro MG, Wood B, Plitnick B, Rea MS. 2011. The impact of light from computer monitors on melatonin levels in college students. Neuroendocrinol Lett. 32(2):158–163. doi:0172780X.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gradisar M, Wolfson AR, Harvey AG, Hale L, Rosenberg R, Czeisler CA. 2013. The sleep and technology use of Americans: findings from the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 sleep in America poll. J Clin Sleep Med. 9(12):1291–1299. doi:10.5664/jcsm.3272.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green A, Cohen-Zion M, Haim A, Dagan Y. 2017. Evening light exposure to computer screens disrupts human sleep, biological rhythms, and attention abilities. Chronobiol Int. 34(7):855–865. doi:10.1080/07420528.2017.1324878.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green A, Dagan Y, Haim A. 2018. Exposure to screens of digital media devices, sleep, and concentration abilities in a sample of Israeli adults. Sleep Biol Rhythms. 16(3):273–281. doi:10.1007/s41105-018-0150-1.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grønli J, Byrkjedal IK, Bjorvatn B, Nødtvedt O, Hamre B, Pallesen S. 2016. Reading from an iPad or from a book in bed: the impact on human sleep. A randomized controlled crossover trial. Sleep Med. 21:86–92. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2016.02.006.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Haim A, Portnov BA. 2013. Effects of light pollution on animal daily rhythms and seasonality: ecological consequences. Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers. 1–168. [ (Published by Springer Netherlands)]
   Google Scholar
• Hazlerigg D, Simonneaux V. 2014. Seasonal regulation of reproduction in mammals. Knobil Neill’s Physiol Reprod. 2:1575–1604. doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0140.
   Google Scholar
• Higuchi S, Motohashi Y, Liu Y, Maeda A. 2005. Effects of playing a computer game using a bright display on presleep physiological variables, sleep latency, slow wave sleep and REM sleep. J Sleep Res. 14(3):267–273. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2869.2005.00463.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Izzo G, Francesco A, Ferrara D, Campitiello MR, Serino I, Minucci S, d'Istria M. 2010. Expression of melatonin (MT1, MT2) and melatonin-related receptors in the adult rat testes and during development. Zygote. 18(3):257–264.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jensen TK, Andersson AM, Skakkebæk NE, Joensen UN, Jensen MB, Lassen TH, Nordkap L, Olesen IA, Hansen ÅM, Rod NH, Jørgensen N. 2013. Association of sleep disturbances with reduced semen quality: a cross-sectional study among 953 healthy young Danish men. Am J Epidemiol. 177(10):1027–1037. doi:10.1093/aje/kws420.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jurewicz J, Hanke W, Radwan M, Bonde J. 2009. Environmental factors and semen quality. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 22(4):305–329. doi:10.2478/v10001-009-0036-1.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Krausz C. 2011. Male infertility: pathogenesis and clinical diagnosis. Best Pract Res. 25(2):271–285.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lafuente R, García-Blàquez N, Jacquemin B, Checa MA. 2016. Outdoor air pollution and sperm quality. Fertil Steril. 106(4):880–896. doi:10.1016/j.beem.2010.08.006.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levine H, Jørgensen N, Martino-Andrade A, Mendiola J, Weksler-Derri D, Mindlis I, Mendiola J, Weksler-Derri D, Mindlis I, Pinotti R, Swan SH. 2017. Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Hum Reprod. 23(6):646–659. doi:10.1093/humupd/dmx022.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Macdonald AA, Stewart AW, Farquhar CM. 2013. Body mass index in relation to semen quality and reproductive hormones in New Zealand men: a cross-sectional study in fertility clinics. Hum Reprod. 28(12):3178–3187. doi:10.1093/humrep/det379.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Malpaux B, Vigué C, Skinner DC, Thiéry JC, Pelletier J, Chemineau P. 1996. Seasonal breeding in sheep: mechanism of action of melatonin. Anim Reprod Sci. 42(1–4):109–117. doi:10.1177/074873001129001980.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mesquita G, Reimao R. 2007. Nightly use of computer by adolescents: its effect on quality of sleep. Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 65(2B):428–432. doi:10.1590/S0004-282X2007000300012.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nathan N, Zeitzer J. 2013. A survey study of the association between mobile phone use and daytime sleepiness in California high school students. BMC Public Health. 13(1):840. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-840.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Nordkap L, Jensen TK, Hansen ÅM, Lassen TH, Bang AK, Joensen UN, Jensen MB, Skakkebæk NE. et al. 2016. Psychological stress and testicular function: a cross-sectional study of 1215 Danish men. Fertil Steril. 105(1):174–187. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.09.016.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nordkap L, Joensen UN, Blomberg Jensen M, Jørgensen N. 2012. Regional differences and temporal trends in male reproductive health disorders: semen quality may be a sensitive marker of environmental exposures. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 355(2):221–230. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2011.05.048.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pieri C, Marra M, Moroni F, Recchioni R, Marcheselli F. 1994. Melatonin: a peroxyl radical scavenger more effective than vitamin E. Life Sci. 55:15. doi:10.1016/0024-3205(94)00666-0.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pieri C, Moroni F, Marra M, Marcheselli F, Recchioni R. 1995. Melatonin is an efficient antioxidant. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 20:159–165. doi:10.1016/0167-4943(94)00593-V.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Portaluppi F, Smolensky MH, Touitou Y. 2010. Ethics and methods for biological rhythm research on animals and human beings. Chronobiol Int. 27(9–10):1911–1929.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rossi SP, Windschuettl S, Matzkin ME, Terradas C, Ponzio R, Puigdomenech E, Levalle O, Calandra RS, Mayerhofer A, Frungieri MB, et al. 2014. Melatonin in testes of infertile men: evidence for anti-proliferative and anti-oxidant effects on local macrophage and mast cell populations. Andrology. 2(3):436–449. doi:10.1111/j.2047-2927.2014.00207.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Semercioz A, Onur R, Ogras S, Orhan I. 2003. Effects of melatonin on testicular tissue nitric oxide level and antioxidant enzyme activities in experimentally induced left varicocele. Neuroendocrinol Lett. 24(1–2):86–90. doi:0172780X.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sharma R, Biedenharn KR, Fedor JM, Agarwal A. 2013. Lifestyle factors and reproductive health: taking control of your fertility. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 11(1):66. doi:10.1186/1477-7827-11-66.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Shochat T, Flint-Bretler O, Tzischinsky O. 2010. Sleep patterns, electronic media exposure and daytime sleep-related behaviours among Israeli adolescents. Acta Paediatr Int J Paediatr. 99(9):1396–1400. doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2010.01821.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sroykham W, Wongsawat Y. 2013. Effects of LED-backlit computer screen and emotional self-regulation on human melatonin production. In: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; EMBS; p. 1704–1707. doi:10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609847.
   Google Scholar
• Stevens R, Brainard G, Blask D, Lockley S, Motta ME; Breast Cancer MM. 2014. Circadian disruption from electric lighting in the modern world. CA Cancer J Clin. 64(3):207–218. doi:10.3322/caac.21218
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang X, Chen Q, Zou P, Liu T, Mo M, Yang H, Zhou N, Sun L, Chen H, Ling x, et al. 2018. Sleep duration is associated with sperm chromatin integrity among young men in Chongqing, China. J Sleep Res. 27(4):1–8. doi:10.1111/jsr.12615.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weaver DR, Stehle JH, Stopa EG, Reppert SM. 1993. Melatonin receptors in human hypothalamus and pituitary: implications for circadian and reproductive responses to melatonin. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 76(2):295–301. doi:10.1210/jcem.76.2.8381796.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wood B, Rea MS, Plitnick B, Figueiro MG. 2013. Light level and duration of exposure determine the impact of self-luminous tablets on melatonin suppression. Appl Ergon. 44(2):237–240. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2012.07.008.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• World Health Organization. 2010. WHO laboratory manual for the examination and processing of human semen. 5th ed. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Press Switzerland. doi:10093591.
   Google Scholar