Abstract
Cervical mucus contains reducing substance, expressed as sugar, in amounts comparable to that reported for semen. On standing at room temperature for twenty-four hours the amount of sugar is reduced by some 12 per cent. When washed spermatozoa are added to the mucus in the amount of 1 million per 100 mg., the effected decrement in sugar, on standing twenty-four hours is doubled, and amounts to some 24 per cent. It is suggested that this destruction of sugar is due to enzyme action and that it serves a useful purpose in sperm metabolism.
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