Following major tissue injury, hyaluronic acid production increases as a rapid response survival mechanism. Increased hyaluronic acid production and turnover are often associated with increased hyaluronidase activity, the enzyme that degrades hyaluronic acid. We investigated whether hyaluronic acid and hyaluronidase can be used as non-invasive markers of acute disease activity in hepatitis C by...

Hyaluronic acid concentrations were measured by a laser nephelometric assay in serum samples from 50 patients with advanced disseminated neoplasm and 50 healthy controls matched for age and sex. The identity of hyaluronic acid was confirmed by a combination of electrophoretic and enzymatic techniques. The mean serum hyaluronic acid concentration for the control group was 1.09 mg/l, with a range...

A simple and accurate capillary electrophoresis (CE) method was developed to simultaneously separate and quantify heparin, chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid. The relative standard deviations (intra-day) of migration time, peak height and peak area for heparin, chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid were lower than 1.11, 5.45 and 2.82%, respectively. The limits of detection of heparin, ch...

Hyaluronic acid is a constituent of the skin and helps to maintain hydration. The oral intake of hyaluronic acid increases water in the horny layer as demonstrated by human trials, but in vivo kinetics has not been shown. This study confirmed the absorption, migration, and excretion of (14)C-labeled hyaluronic acid ((14)C-hyaluronic acid). (14)C-hyaluronic acid was orally or intravenously admin...

The complex of hyaluronic acid (HA)-binding region, link protein, and hyaluronic acid was isolated from trypsin digests of bovine nasal cartilage proteoglycan aggregates and the HA-binding region was then purified from the complex. After dansylation of accessible amino groups, less than 15% of the HA-binding region molecules interacted with hyaluronic acid. Conversely, after acetylation with 2....

Objective(s):Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), is an important component of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) spectrum, which progresses to the end stage liver disease, if not diagnosed and treated properly. The disproportionate production of pro- and anti-inflammatory adipokines secreted from fat contributes to the pathogenesis of NASH. In this study, the comparative effect of piog...

A complex consisting of the hyaluronic acid-binding region of proteoglycan molecules, the link protein, and hyaluronic acid was purified from trypsin digests of aggregates isolated from the Swarm rat chondrosarcoma. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the molecular weights for the hyaluronic acid-binding region and the link protein were about 67,000 and 4...

The protein-keratan sulfate core of bovine nasal cartilage proteoglycan was purified by affinity chromatography on a column of immobilized hyaluronic acid. The hyaluronic acid was immobilized by reaction with a hydrazido-alkyl derivative of Sepharose in the presence of borohydride. Proteoglycan was digested with chondroitinase ABC and the entire mixture was passed over a column of the Sepharose...

objective(s): protein kinase c (pkcα) is involved in modulating articular chondrocytes apoptosis induced by nitric oxide (no). hyaluronic acid (ha) inhibits nitric oxide-induced apoptosis of articular chondrocytes by protecting pkcα, but the mechanism remains unclear. the present study was performed to investigate the effects and mechanisms of pkcα regulate protective effect of hyaluronic acid....