Advantages | Disadvantages |
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- easy to perform | - restricted to ejaculates with high sperm count and motility |
- very cost-effective | Â |
- usually recovery of a very clean fraction of highly motile spermatozoa | - low yield |
 | - spermatozoa can be massively damaged by reactive oxygen species |
 | - significant decrease of the percentage of normally chromatin-condensed spermatozoa |