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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-5-5
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans play a pivotal role in tissue function, development, inflammation, and immunity. We have identified a novel cDNA encoding human heparanase, an enzyme thought to cleave heparan sulfate in physiology and disease, and have located the HEP gene on human chromosome 4q21. Monoclonal antibodies against human heparanase located the enzyme along invasive extravillous trophoblasts of human placenta and along endothelial cells in organ xenografts targeted by hyperacute rejection, both sites of heparan sulfate digestion. Heparanase deposition was evident in arterial walls in normal tissues; however, vascular heparan sulfate cleavage was coincident with heparanase enzyme during inflammatory episodes. These findings suggest that heparanase elaboration and control of catalytic activity may contribute to the development and pathogenesis of vascular disease and suggest that heparanase intervention might be a useful therapeutic target.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0959-6658
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
467-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Glucuronidase, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Glycoside Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Graft Rejection, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Heparitin Sulfate, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Inflammation, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Swine, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Trophoblasts, pubmed-meshheading:10764835-Vascular Diseases
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Heparanase expression in invasive trophoblasts and acute vascular damage.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't