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Correlation Studies Between Human Seminal Plasma Trace Metal Concentrations And Semen Quality, De-Shen Mei

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Methodologies for the determination of cadmium, copper, selenium and zinc concentration in human seminal plasma have been developed using polarized Zeeman-effect atomic absorption spectroscopy. Within-run coefficients of variation (CY's) for cadmium, copper, selenium and zinc from pooled seminal plasma were found to be 8%, 5% , 4% and 0.5% at a mean (SD) concentration of 0.48 (0.04), 147 (7 .6), 53 (2. 1) and 122,900 (700) μg/ℓ, (n = 10), respectively.

Between-run CV's were determined to be 4% , 7%, 5% and 7% at a mean (SD) concentration of 2.4 (0.1), 147 (10. 1), 67.7 (3.4) and 115,800 (8300) …