Author/Editor		Pipan, N; Pšeničnik, M
Title		The application of prolonged osmification in the study of cell death in the endometrium pre and post parturition
Type		članek
Source		Period Biol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 94, št. 4
Publication year		1992
Volume		str. 251-6
Language		eng
Abstract		Prolonged osmificaton was used to analyse the dying ceUs in the mouse endometrium in the first hours after parturition and comparatively in the endometrium of pregnant mice. Two morphologically different cell types of mice endometrial epithelium during pregnancy and after parturition i.e. the "dark" and the "palen ones, differ also in the reduction capacity of their endoplasmic reticulum (ER) after Os impregnation. The dark cells with heavily stained endoplasmic reticulum seem to incline towards apoptosis which is much less expressed during pregnancy. Many, "pale" cells with poorly developed and unstained ER undergo a necrotic degeneration in the pospartum period. This process is completely lacking during the pregnancy. The endometrial epithelial celIs in the post partum period exhibit very strong phagocytotic capacity in "dark" as well as in "pale" cells.
Descriptors		ENDOMETRIUM ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM MICE PREGNANCY APOPTOSIS PUERPERIUM