BECAUSE of the morphogenetic properties of the sex hormones, the histologic study of accessible sex organs has been demonstrated to be very useful in the evaluation of genital functions. However, we believe that the histochemical study of such organs and tissues promises a better understanding of the many problems involved. So far as we know, glycogen and lipids are the only substances which have been systematically investigated by means of histochemical reactions during the human endometrial cycle. Except for the excellent work by Wislocki and Dempsey (1) on the mucosa of the pregnant uterus, phosphatases have not been studied in the human endometrium. It can be stated that, to date, only observations on the location of phosphatase have appeared in the literature, such as the report of Kabat and Furth (2), who demonstrated the absence of phosphatase in the myometrium and its presence in small amounts in the epithelia. The relation between this enzyme and estrogen action in mouse endometrium has been shown by Atkinson and Elftman (3) and mentioned by Gomori (4, 5).
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