title: Topography of the sex chromatin in vaginal histiocytes.
abstract: Routine vaginal smears with good numbers of histiocytes with kidney shaped morphology of their nuclei were selected for the study of sex chromatin topography. A variable distribution of the sex chromatin was found in 125 nuclei studied: polar in 57.4 percent, ventral in 21.9 percent and dorsal in 20.7 percent of the nuclei. No relationship was found between sex chromatin and cytoplasmic morphology and phagocytic activity.
mesh_terms: D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006644:Histiocytes / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010587:Phagocytosis; D010784:Photomicrography; D010873:Pinocytosis; D012728:Sex Chromatin / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013194:Staining and Labeling; D014621:Vagina / Q000166:cytology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears