Browsing by Subject "glycosaminoglycans"

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    • Altered hyaluronic acid content in tear fluid of patients with adenoviral conjunctivitis 

      Dreyfuss, Juliana Luporini [UNIFESP]; Regatieri, Caio Vinicius Saito [UNIFESP]; Coelho, Bruno; Barbosa, José B.; Freitas, Denise de [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena Bonciani [UNIFESP]; Martins, João R. (Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015-03-01)
      The adenoviral conjunctivitis is one of the biggest causes of conjunctival infection in the world. Conjunctivitis causes relatively nonspecific symptoms, as hyperaemia and chemosis. Even after biomicroscopy, complex ...

    • Avaliação dos glicosaminoglicanos do tecido periuretral de pacientes com e sem prolapso genital 

      Feldner Junior, Paulo Cezar [UNIFESP]; Kobayashi, Elsa Yoko [UNIFESP]; Sartori, Marair Gracio Ferreira [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena Bonciani [UNIFESP]; Baracat, Edmund Chada [UNIFESP]; Girao, Mandel Joao Batista Castello [UNIFESP] (Assoc Medica Brasileira, 2008-03-01)
      OBJECTIVE, To characterize and quantify periurethral tissue sulphated glycosaminoglycans (GAGS) in women with and without pelvic organ prolapse.STUDY DESIGN. Periurethral tissue was obtained from 35 women who underwent ...

    • Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-like fluorescence assay to investigate the interactions of glycosaminoglycans to cells 

      Boucas, Rodrigo Ippolito [UNIFESP]; Trindade, Edvaldo S. [UNIFESP]; Tersariol, Ivarne L. S. [UNIFESP]; Dietrich, Carl P. [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena B. [UNIFESP] (Elsevier B.V., 2008-06-23)
      Sulfated glycosaminoglycans were labeled with biotin to study their interaction with cells in culture. Thus, heparin, heparan sulfate, chondroitin 4-sulfate, chondroitin 6-sulfate and dermatan sulfate were labeled using ...

    • Distribution and composition of glycosaminoglycans in the left human coronary arterial branches under myocardial bridge 

      Shinjo, Samuel K. [UNIFESP]; Prates, Nadir EVB; Oba, Sueli M. [UNIFESP]; Sampaio, Lúcia O. [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena B. [UNIFESP] (Elsevier B.V., 1999-04-01)
      The distribution and composition of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are reported in the anterior interventricular branch under the intermyocardial bridge (MB) and the ventricular branch without bridge, both from the left human ...

    • The effect of Phyllanthus niruri on urinary inhibitors of calcium oxalate crystallization and other factors associated with renal stone formation 

      Freitas, A. M. [UNIFESP]; Schor, Nestor [UNIFESP]; Boim, Mirian Aparecida [UNIFESP] (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2002-06-01)
      Objective To evaluate the effect of an aqueous extract of Phyllanthus niruri (Pn), a plant used in folk medicine to treat lithiasis. on the urinary excretion of endogenous inhibitors of lithogenesis, citrate, magnesium and ...

    • The expression of glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans in the uterine cervix of albino rats after local hyaluronidase infusion 

      Souza, Guilherme Negrao [UNIFESP]; Camano, Luiz [UNIFESP]; Araujo Junior, Edward [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena Bonciani [UNIFESP]; Medeiros, Valquiria [UNIFESP]; Maciel Martins, Joao Roberto [UNIFESP]; Souza, Eduardo [UNIFESP] (Informa Healthcare, 2014-06-01)
      Objective: To assess the local effect of hyaluronidase injection on the expression of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and proteoglycans (PGs) in the extracellular matrix of the uterine cervix from pregnant albino rats.Methods: ...

    • A fucan from the brown seaweed Spatoglossum schröederi inhibits Chinese hamster ovary cell adhesion to several extracellular matrix proteins 

      Rocha, Hugo Alexandre Oliveira [UNIFESP]; Franco, Celia Regina Cavichlolo [UNIFESP]; Trindade, Edvaldo da Silva [UNIFESP]; Carvalho, L.c.m.; Veiga, Silvio Sanches [UNIFESP]; Leite, Edda Lisboa [UNIFESP]; Dietrich, Carl Peter [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena Bonciani [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica, 2001-05-01)
      Fucans, a family of sulfated polysaccharides present in brown seaweed, have several biological activities. Their use as drugs would offer the advantage of no potential risk of contamination with viruses or particles such ...

    • Glycosaminoglycan loss from cartilage after anterior cruciate ligament rupture: influence of time since rupture and chondral injury 

      Mattiello, Stela Márcia; Cintra Neto, Paulo Felix de Araujo; Lima, Geovane Elias Guidini de; Pinto, Karina Nogueira Zambone; Cohen, Moises [UNIFESP]; Pimentel, Edson Rosa (Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Fisioterapia, 2008-02-01)
      OBJECTIVE: To quantify the concentration of sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) concentration in the synovial fluid (SF) of knees with chronic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture and to identify possible associations ...

    • Glycosaminoglycan profile in bladder and urethra of castrated rats treated with estrogen, progestogen, and raloxifene 

      Deus, José Miguel de [UNIFESP]; Girao, MJBC; Sartori, MGF; Baracat, E. C.; Lima, G. R. de; Nader, H. B.; Dietrich, C. P. (Mosby, Inc, 2003-12-01)
      OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to evaluate the action of conjugated equine estrogens alone, medroxyprogesterone, the combination of these estrogens with progestogens, and of raloxifene on the glycosaminoglycan profile ...

    • Glycosaminoglycans affect the action of human plasma kallikrein on kininogen hydrolysis and inflammation 

      Andrezza, J. G.; Nunes, V. A.; Carmona, Adriana Karaoglanovic [UNIFESP]; Nader, Helena Bonciani [UNIFESP]; Dietrich, Carl Peter [UNIFESP]; Silveira, Vera Lucia Flor [UNIFESP]; Shimamoto, K.; Ura, N.; Sampaio, Misako Uemura [UNIFESP]; Sampaio, Claudio Augusto Machado [UNIFESP]; Araujo, M. S. (Elsevier B.V., 2002-12-01)
      Human plasma kallikrein (huPK) is a serine proteinase involved in many biological processes including those of the kallikrein-kinin system. The action of huPK on kininogen results in bradykinin (BK) release, a potent ...