Ultrastructure of impuberal vaginas cultivated under various hormonal conditions]

Differentiation of rat vaginal epithelium has been studied in organotypic culture in vitro under different hormonal conditions [evolution in association with ovary or testis, and after injection to rats of progesterone 5 mg. and estradiol 0.1 lambda). Whatever the hormonal preconditioning before the vaginal culture the same, complet cornification occurs.