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Concentration of selected metals in normal and pathological human seminal plasma
1Laboratoire de Biochimie C, C.H.R.U.G., Grenoble, France.
Journal of Trace Elements and Electrolytes in Health and Disease
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
The levels of zinc, ultrafilterable (UF) zinc, copper and manganese in normal and pathological (astheno-, azoo-, oligospermic) seminal plasma were measured by flameless atomic absorption. For ultrafiltrable zinc, a special method was used to treat Amikon membranes. A lower ultrafiltrable zinc level was found in azoospermic and a lower manganese level in oligospermic seminal plasma. At this time the meaning of these results is unknown.