[The objectives and prospects of quantitative histocytochemistry]

The article is of a surveying character and is dedicated to objectives of quantititative histo mammary gland). Problems connected with standardization of preparation of the material and carrying out of histochemical reactions, a complex of histochemical criteria and principles of their selection, are considered. A variant of mathematical treatment of material by a computer, including analysis of distribution and correlation characteristic, is suggested. The complex functional-morphological method (marker) suggested, with its quantitative assessment, is, in the opinion of the author, a qualitatively new basis for mathematical descriptions of organs and systems and their modelling and opens up new perspectives both in physiology and pathology.