Specific endometrial granular cells. A semiquantitative study

Granulocytes in the endometrium of post-partum women

“…The endometrial granulocytes have been described previously (Hamperl & Hellweg, 1958;Kazzaz, 1972Kazzaz, , 1975DaUenbach-HeUweg, 1974;van Bogaert, 1975). Although phloxinetartrazine demonstrates them nicely, the granulocytes are easUy recognizable even when routinely stained with haemalum and eosin.…”

“…These granulocytes have also been described in ectopie endometrium (Hughesdon, 1976), in the myometrium (Bjersing & Borglin, 1962) and in the FaUopian tubes (van Bogaert, Maldague & Abarca, 1978a;van Bogaert, Maldague & Staquet, 1978b) as weU as in the glandular epithelium of the human endometrium (van Bogaert et al, 1978a). Whüe some authors (Brosens, Robertson & Van Assche, 1974;DaUenbach-HeUweg, 1974;HeUweg, Férin & Ober, 1960;Kazzaz, 1972Kazzaz, , 1975 have stressed the need for a protestagenic influence, others have shown a positive relationship between the increase of endometrial granulocytes and an oestrogenic influence in rodents (Baker, Bergman & Paul, 1967;Bjersing & BorgUn, 1964) and women (Bjersing, 1977;van Bogaert, 1975). In order to substantiate our previous findings in anovulatory cycles (van Bogaert, 1975), we have now studied the appearance and increase of endometrial granulocytes after childbirth, i.e.…”

CD3- Leukocytes Present in the Human Uterus During Early Placentation: Phenotypic and MorphologicCharacterization of the CD56++ Population

“…10c) (Cardell et al, 1969;Loubet et al, 1989) and NK/LGL in the peripheral blood (Kang et al, 1987;Polli et al, 1987), electron microscopy was performed together with immunoelectron microscopy for CD56. (Weill, 1921;von Numers, 1953;Hamperl and Hellweg, 1958;Kazzaz, 1972) (Ritson and Bulmer, 1987a (Ritson and sorting show that the majority of CD56 bright+ Bulmer, 1987b;King et al, 1989a), reflecting our decidual LGL (75%) are granulated with a small flow cytometric results of the small numbers of cells number of agranular cells. This is in contrast to the expressing CD16 at low density.…”

Immunoregulatory cells in human decidua : morphology, immunohistochemistry and function

“…Thus (Pijnenborg etal., 1980 ;Wynn, 1974 (von Numers, 1953 ;Hamperl & Hellweg, 1958;Kazzaz, 1972;Dallenbach-Hellweg, 1981 ). EGs are abundant in decidua in the first trimester of pregnancy and in the late secretory phase of the menstrual cycle.…”