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QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATIONS OF ENDOMETRIAL GLYCOGEN, USING THE ANTHRONE METHOD*

1955; Oxford University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1210/jcem-15-9-1106

1945-7197

Heather Payne, J.P.A. Latour,

Infant Nutrition and Health

GLYCOGEN is believed by many to be the direct source of nutriment for the early conceptus from the time it enters the uterine cavity to the time it is actively supported by the maternal blood stream. For this reason, efforts have been directed towards detecting abnormalities in glycogen deposition in the hope that a cause for many cases of primary sterility could be elicited. Zondek and Stein (1) stated that 18.4 per cent of the histologically normal secretory endometria in his series had a deficiency of glycogen. To this condition he attached the name of glycopenia uteri and set the lower limit of glycogen concentration in secretory endometria as 0.25 Gm. per cent. This finding stimulated research in this field and Spyker and Fidler (2), Randall and Power (3), and Laqueur (4) repeated this investigation. The series of Spyker and Fidler, in our opinion contained too few secretory endometria to yield conclusive results, but Randall and Power and Laqueur obtained values consistently higher than those of Zondek and Stein. In addition, they could find no conclusive evidence to substantiate the claim of Zondek respecting glycopenia uteri.