THE RELATIONSHIP OF POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES TO INFERTILITY IN UTERI CONTAINING FOREIGN BODIES
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- 1 September 1967
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 126 (3), 523-538
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.126.3.523
Abstract
A chronic infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes was invariably found in the infertile regions of uteri containing foreign bodies in conventional rats, germfree rats, mice, and rabbits. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes were never found in the fertile regions of these uteri.Keywords
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