SPECIFIC SECRETORY PROTEIN OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT

Investigations on the biochemical composition of genital tract secretions during oestrus and early reproductive stages reveal a spectrum of different substrate and time specific patterns, particularly of secretory proteins. Results are presented on the biochemistry, immunological specificity, and endocrinological regulation of rabbit female genital tract secretion proteins. Special attention is drawn upon uteroglobin, which is one of the genital tract specific proteins presumably involved in preimplantational blastocyst development. Since analytical data on rabbit genital tract secretion proteins accumulate, there is consequently a necessity for an approach to comparable studies in the human uterus. Discelectrophoretical patterns and immunochemical test results are presented in this paper which encourage further studies on human genital tract specific proteins with regard to human reproduction, particularly with its contraceptive and fertility problems.