BACKGROUND Hyaluronidase (Hylase Dessau(®)) is a hyaluronic acid-metabolizing enzyme, which has been shown to loosen the extracellular matrix, thereby improving the diffusion of local anesthetics. Lower eyelid edema is a common post-interventional complication of cosmetic procedures performed in the lid region, such as the injection of hyaluronic acid fillers for tear-trough augmentation. The p...

We have compared the efficacy of adding varying concentrations of hyaluronidase to a standard mixture of 2% lidocaine and 1% ropivacaine to provide peribulbar anaesthesia for cataract surgery. We used (i) the time to adequate anaesthesia for surgery and (ii) ocular and eyelid movement scores at 8 min after block as clinical endpoints. Ninety patients were randomly allocated to receive 7-10 ml o...

The effect of adding hyaluronidase to regional ophthalmic anaesthesia with etidocaine 1.5% was examined. Two studies were performed in a double-blind fashion. In Study #1, 70 patients were given peribulbar anaesthesia with etidocaine either with or without hyaluronidase (7.5 IU.ml-1) using a standard intraorbital injection and separate lid injections. The block was supplemented as needed. Lower...

It has been recorded that the increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of some pathological blood specimens, especially from patients with rheumatic fever, was decreased or abolished by incubation with certain preparations of hyaluronidase (1, 2). This effect was shown to be due to changes produced on the erythrocytes and not on the plasma (2) ; the erythrocytes were changed to spherocyte...

Bull seminal-plasma hyaluronidase was purified 180-fold by chromatography on concanvalin A-Sepharose, heparin Sepharose, Sephadex G-200 and Sephacryl S-200. With hyaluronic acid as the substrate, the specific activity and turnover number of purified hyaluronidase were 3.63 mumol/min per mg (104000 National Formulary units/mg of protein) and 214 min-1 (mol of product formed/mol of enzyme per min...

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...

STRUCTURE OF CUPIENNIUS SALEI VENOM HYALURONIDASE Hyaluronidases are important venom components acting as spreading factor of toxic compounds. In several studies this spreading effect was tested on vertebrate tissue. However, data about the spreading activity on invertebrates, the main prey organisms of spiders, are lacking. Here, a hyaluronidase-like enzyme was isolated from the venom of the s...

The venom of honeybees, Apis mellifera, contains several biologically active peptides and two enzymes, one of which is a hyaluronidase. By using degenerate oligonucleotides derived from the amino-terminal sequence of this hyaluronidase reported by others, clones encoding the precursor for this enzyme could be isolated from a cDNA library prepared from venom glands of worker bees. The deduced am...

The effect of hyaluronidase on host connective tissue and the protective action of the hyaluronic acid capsule against phagocytosis have been the basis for a number of studies on the relation of these products to the virulence of streptococci. Duran-Reynals (1933) demonstrated that the areas of dermal lesions produced by several strains of streptococci were largely a function of the amount of h...

Fertilization involves several precisely coordinated steps, including sperm dispersal of the oocyte cumulus mass, adhesion and binding to the zona pellucida, penetration through the zona pellucida, and fusion with the oocyte. Hyaluronidase, which is present in the sperm head, is known to be essential for the decomposition of the oocyte cumulus mass. Interestingly, two types of hyaluronidase—SPA...