Table 4 Advantages and disadvantages of the glass wool filtration.
Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|
- simple to perform | - a bit more expensive |
- normally, recovery of spermatozoa with good motility | - the filtrate is not as clean as it is with other sperm separation methods |
- spermatozoa from ejaculates with a very low sperm density can be separated | - remnants of debris are still present |
- good yield | Â |
- leukocytes are eliminated to a large extent | Â |
- reactive oxygen species are significantly reduced | Â |