The effect of progesterone on the accumulation of leukocytes in the human endometrium.

Objective: Our purpose was to determine the role of progesterone on the number and type of leukocytes found in human endometrium.

Study Design: Endometrial tissue was obtained from normally cycling women and from women receiving hormone replacement therapy for premature ovarian failure. All tissues were formalin fixed, sectioned, and stained with specific antibodies to leukocytes, T cells, B cells, and macrophages.

Type IV glycogen storage disease: first reported case in Thailand.

Glycogen storage disease type IV is rare. The disease is characterized by widespread storage of a polysaccharide similar to amylopectin. An autopsy case of a 6-year-old Thai boy with cirrhosis and deposits in the liver, heart, muscle and central nervous system was described along with histochemical and electron microscopic findings.