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Structure of human cervical mucus from light scattering measurements
B Volochine1, A M Cazabat, F C Chretien
1Université Paris V, Laboratoire de diffusion inélastique de la lumière, U.E.R.-E.M.B., France.
Human Reproduction (Oxford, England)
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
Using laser light scattering, photon correlation and spectral analysis, it was shown that cervical mucus is a non-Newtonian Hydrogel with large meshes (approximately 5 microns). The experimental results are in agreement with a model of hydrogel with weak linkages and are definitely not compatible with a model of entangled macromolecules. Large oscillations, induced by both thermal and mechanical excitation, have been observed in this medium, probably due to its non-Newtonian character.