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Changes in cervical neutrophil elastase levels during the menstrual cycle.
Reprod Med Biol
January 2012
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hamamatsu University School of Medicine 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashiku 431-3192 Hamamatsu Japan.
Purpose: Cervical mucus plays an important role in host defense mechanisms and is involved in the ascendance of sperm. To determine the change of neutrophil mediators contained in cervical mucus, we measured total neutrophil elastase (NE) levels throughout the menstrual cycle.
Methods: Cervical NE concentrations in 31 healthy women having regular ovulatory cycles were measured during the follicular, ovulatory and luteal phases.