[Experimental studies of the effect of peracetic acid on the endometrium of cattle]

Histological investigations were made on uteri of 61 cattle (27 of them after intrauterine treatment). The response activated by 0.2% peracetic acid in the bovine endometrium was a primary inflammatory process, however, necrotising within clearly pronounced limits. Degenerative alterations were the major histological findings 35 minutes from application of 0.2% peracetic acid. They were recordable from the epithelium but at that point in time could easily affect the entire cellular stratum. Histopathological phenomena on the fourth day from application of 0.2% peracetic acid were clearly less strongly pronounced than on the third day. Histiocyte infiltrates of moderate and rarely high intensity reflected increased phagocytosis in the process of endometrial regeneration.