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Phosphorylase activity was observed in the uterus of the rabbit and rat. In the rabbit uterus enzymatic activity was confined to the myometrium while in the rat phosphorylase activity was present in the luminal epithelium as well as the myometrium. In both animals enzymatic activity was highest following estrogen stimulation. In the uterine sections of the castrate and hormone treated animals it was not possible to demonstrate histochemically UDPG-glycogen transferase. The results seem to indicate that in the uterus of the rabbit and rat only one polysaccharide forming pathway is present and perhaps the polysaccharide is synthesized from G-1-P and not from UDPG through the enzyme UDPG-glycogen transferase.
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