Abstract
Cervical mucus is an inhomogeneous gel of micellar network structure with tricot-like molecular gel arrangements. Structural elements of the semisolid material are characteristic epithelial glycoproteins. The network of filaments is filled with a fluid which may be thought of as cervical plasma. Estrogens and gestagens influence changes in the structure and composition of the cervical mucus. The estrogenic type of mucus represents an open channel system for sperm and shows low concentrations of soluble proteins. Under the influence of gestagens this changes to a dense network of swollen micelles with high concentrations of soluble proteins. Interactions between the cervical plasma and the structural elements of the network as well as with the penetrating sperms remain to be investigated.(Author modified)
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