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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 | |
| - leukocytes are eliminated to a large extent | |
| - reactive oxygen species are significantly reduced |
