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Abstract
Many materials such as glass and different types of plastic are used today to manufacture sperm containers. The biocompatibility of such materials, for human semen is usually taken for granted. This paper demonstrates that some types of materials can, however, affect seminal parameters (sperm motility, pH lipid oxidation) as a function of time, therefore introducing biases in semen analyses. Preliminary results indicate that high-quality polypropylene (or ev. polystyrene) is the best material to achieve medium- or long-time conservation of human semen.