What is the structure of vaginal/cervical mucosa?

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Vikas Jaiswal

Vaginal mucosa is comprise of non keratinised stratified squamous epithelium which become thick and partially keratinised during oestrous/ menstrual period. Immunoglobin IgA is secreated in vaginal secretion

Luigi Marongiu

Thank you, but is there some paper I can cite (and study) regarding its histological structure? In particular, I am interested in the flux of nutrients from the blood into the mucosal, if any.