[A comparative morphological description of the gingival and buccal epithelium in females in various phases of the menstrual cycle].
Computer morphometry was used to analyze morphologically and histochemically the smears of the gingival and buccal epithelium obtained from women at the secretion and proliferation phases of the menstrual cycle. A variety of reliably statistic differences conditioned by a menstrual-cycle phase was found to be typical of the gingival epithelium. A high percentage of epitheliocytes of differentiation terminal stages as well as signs of enhanced protein-synthesizing processes were typical of the cells ratio in the gingival epithelium at the secretion phase. The number of differences in the buccal epithelium conditioned by a menstrual cycle was by far less, which denotes a lesser dependence of this epithelium on hormones, whose concentration at the proliferation phase essentially differs from that observed at the secretion phase.
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EA
Sapronova
B Ia
BIa
Ryzhavskiĭ
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IF
Sluzhaev
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005881:Gingiva / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D008597:Menstrual Cycle; D008875:Middle Aged; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000166:cytology*