abstract：:This study examines the similarities and differences in the noncollagenous domain (NC1) of type IV collagen from human glomerular basement membrane (hGBM), alveolar basement membrane (hABM), and placenta (hPBM). Following collagenase digestion, NC1 domain was isolated on Bio-Gel A-0.5m or by cation exchange chromatogr...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Shen GQ,Butkowski R,Cheng T,Wieslander J,Katz A,Cass J,Fish AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions were established to stimulate human gingival fibroblast explant cultures to synthesize milligram quantities of the metalloproteinase proenzymes, prostromelysin and procollagenase. To stimulate enzyme production, cells were treated with 1 nM recombinant human IL-1 beta for approximately 7 days under serum fr...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Lark MW,Walakovits LA,Shah TK,Vanmiddlesworth J,Cameron PM,Lin TY

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small proteoglycans were dissociatively extracted from normal human thoracic aorta with 4 M guanidine hydrochloride containing protease inhibitors, and purified by Sepharose CL-4B chromatography, dissociative cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation, and diethylaminoethyl cellulose chromatography. The intact pr...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Register TC,Wagner WD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were designed to test the hypothesis that plasma- and serum-deprived embryonic cells and tissues in vitro are capable of producing growth regulating factors which augment cartilage, bone and tooth induction during mouse mandibular process development. Embryonic mouse first branchial arch-derived mandibular pro...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Slavkin HC,Sasano Y,Kikunaga S,Bessem C,Bringas P Jr,Mayo M,Luo W,Mak G,Rall L,Snead ML

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White Carneau pigeons have previously been shown to be genetically susceptible to the development of spontaneous atherogenesis. The severity of development of atheromatous lesions is considerably greater than a more resistant breed of Show Racer pigeons. Analysis of levels of total hydroxyproline and isodesmosine in t...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Park HS,Kniep AC,Smith SC,Robie SM,Smith EC,Yu SY,Mackenzie JW,Scott GE,Boyd CD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently our laboratory has reported, in a lacerated flexor tendon model, that the "early turnover" phase of the repair process extends for a longer period of time in vivo than previously documented. The extensive turnover of the collagenous matrix was consistent with the presence of collagenolytic activity in repairi...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Russell JE,Manske PR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resorption of devitalized bone by isolated osteoclasts in culture was studied by scanning electron microscopy. Osteoclasts attached to the bone and resorbed mineral but left most of matrix collagen undigested in the resorption pits. Postculture-treatment of bone substrate with collagenase completely removed the ma...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Shimizu H,Sakamoto S,Sakamoto M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is a ubiquitous regulator of cellular growth and differentiation. The present study investigated the effects of TGF-beta on chick growth plate chondrocyte proliferation, matrix synthesis, and alkaline phosphatase activity in short term cultures. TGF-beta markedly stimulated D...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Rosier RN,O'Keefe RJ,Crabb ID,Puzas JE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the changes in some of the biochemical and biophysical properties of human femoral head cartilage on the one hand during ageing and on the other hand in osteoarthritis. Topographical variations were also investigated. The parameters studied were those relevant to cartilage function, viz., proteogl...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Grushko G,Schneiderman R,Maroudas A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular distributions of the intermolecular cross-links in fetal bovine bone type I collagen fibrils were quantitatively determined and compared with those of periodontal ligament. Results indicated that Hyl and Lys residues in the COOH-terminal nonhelical peptide portions (residues 16C) of both alpha 1 chains were ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Yamauchi M,Katz EP,Otsubo K,Teraoka K,Mechanic GL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size measurements of dispersed rat bone crystals show that with age a greater proportion exceeds 400 A in length. The surface fractures of more heavily mineralized bones tend to be smooth and stepped, whereas those of less mineralized bones are fibrous. These observations combined with information reported elsewhere o...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Weiner S,Traub W

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical expression has been derived for the mean collagen fibril length in tendon based on the assumption that collagen fibrils originate in cell surface invaginations and terminate either at some remote cell surface or another collagen fibril bundle. The expression thus determined requires knowledge of the effe...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Craig AS,Birtles MJ,Conway JF,Parry DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF beta modulates the growth and differentiation of various cell types, in part by regulating the production of extracellular matrix proteins. In rat osteoblast-like cells TGF beta stimulates the production of collagen, osteopontin and osteonectin. On the other hand, TGF beta inhibits the production of osteocalcin, o...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Noda M,Rodan GA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two populations of primary osteoblasts and the cloned murine osteoblast cell line MC3T3 were activated with osteotropic agents and the conditioned media tested for the presence of macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF). Differences in ability of the three populations to secrete the cytokine as well as in the eff...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Horowitz MC,Einhorn TA,Philbrick W,Jilka RL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral mandibular epithelium determines the position and number of tooth organs. Cranial neural crest-derived ectomesenchyme provides inductive signals for (i) tooth shape, and (ii) sequential determination and expression of several different epithelial-derived enamel proteins. Inductive signalling follows a precise seq...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Slavkin HC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal ghosts represent a crystal associated organic material which is stained by acidic phosphotungstic acid, periodic acid-silver methenamine and periodic acid-thiosemicarbazide-osmium, and is reactive with cations and with colloidal iron at pH 2.0, and unreactive after methylation and saponification. These res...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Bonucci E,Silvestrini G,di Grezia R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several proteins may play a role in bone formation. The C-propeptide of type II collagen is intimately associated with endochondral bone formation in bovine growth plate. We have used an antibody against this peptide to determine its immunofluorescent distribution in early stages of embryonic chick limb development wi...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Kujawa MJ,Weitzhandler M,Poole AR,Rosenberg L,Caplan AI

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) (4F2 and 7E12) were prepared against heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) isolated from bovine glomeruli. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and immunoblotting demonstrated that the mABs reacted with HSPG. Indirect immunofluorescence (IF) showed that the mAbs stained renal basement ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Kemeny E,Fillit HM,Damle S,Mahabir R,Kefalides NA,Gregory JD,Antonovych T,Sabnis S,Zabriskie JB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented fibers, arising from the self assembly of collagen, may be produced from in vitro fibrillogenesis of soluble collagen with gradients of fibrillogenic potential. These gradients may be introduced by either concentration gradients of pronase-treated collagen or of arginine which, in turn, create concentration g...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Ghosh S,Comper WD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteoglycans extracted from articular cartilage of large joints of humans aged 4, 11, 70 and 75, were fractionated on associative density gradients. The top fraction (A3) was purified by ion-exchange chromatography and subsequent gel filtration on Sepharose CL 4B in 4 M GuCl, 0.5% Triton x 100. Proteoglycans from you...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Stanescu V,Chaminade F,Muriel MP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteoglycans and hyaluronic acid synthesized by human skin fibroblasts in culture were characterized, and the effect of thyroid hormone deficiency was examined. The fibroblasts in culture synthesize hyaluronic acid, dermatan sulfate (DS) proteoglycans and heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans. Hyaluronic acid is almost ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Shishiba Y,Yanagishita M,Hascall VC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine articular chondrocytes cultured in agarose gel comprise a heterogeneous population when judged by morphological and histochemical criteria. The purpose of the present experiments was to compare, under the same conditions of culture, sub-populations of chondrocytes derived from different depths of articular cart...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Aydelotte MB,Kuettner KE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle development in the embryonic chick involves the interfacing of two different cell types: myogenic cells forming the contractile network and connective tissue cells which wrap this network into discrete morphologies. Previous reports from this laboratory detailed the characterization of large extracellular matri...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Young HE,Carrino DA,Caplan AI

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative levels of mRNAs coding for elastin, types I and III procollagen and gamma-actin were measured in porcine vascular material following balloon catheterization. A balloon catheter was introduced into the thoracic aorta and jugular vein of 3-6 week old pigs; following distention and six days of postoperative ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Boyd CD,Kniep AC,Pierce RA,Deak SB,Karboski C,Miller DC,Parker MI,Mackenzie JW,Rosenbloom J,Scott GE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the structure and organization of collagen fibrils were recently described in the skin of aspartylglycosaminuria patients. The skin of the patients contained a normal amount and distribution of glycosaminoglycans, but the dermatan sulfate of aspartylglycosaminuria skin was more sensitive to chondroitinase A...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Näntö-Salonen K,Larjava H,Säämanen AM,Heino J,Penttinen R,Pelliniemi LJ,Tammi M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diameter of collagen fibrils has been measured in electron micrographs of the tunica media and adventitia of the common carotid artery of 14 rats (19,262 counts). The fibrils of the media were measured in each of its three interlamellar spaces. The mean fibril diameters in the innermost space and the middle space ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Buck RC

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous developmental study on skin we reported that correlations existed between the collagen fibril diameter distribution, glycosaminoglycan content and composition, and mechanical role. In this work we present new but related electron microscope data on the ultrastructure of skins from flounder, marlin, cod...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Craig AS,Eikenberry EF,Parry DA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the glycoproteins and transglutaminase substrates involved in healing, wounds were made in the skin of anesthetized rats with a biopsy punch. Explants made 1-5 days later were incubated with [3H]-labelled putrescine, fucose or proline. As compared with unwounded skin there was an increased incorporation of la...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Bowness JM,Henteleff H,Dolynchuk KN

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two overlapping clones encompassing 8.5 kb of the human elastin gene were isolated from two genomic libraries constructed by partial digestion with either HaeIII/AluI or Sau3A and contained in lambda Charon 4A or EMBL3, respectively. The 6 kb of DNA comprising the most 3' portion of the gene were sequenced demonstrati...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Indik Z,Yoon K,Morrow SD,Cicila G,Rosenbloom J,Rosenbloom J,Ornstein-Goldstein N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part of the hyaluronic acid (HA) synthesized in peripheral tissues enters the blood circulation through the lymph. It is rapidly taken up by the endothelial cells in the liver (half-life in blood is 2.5-5.5 minutes) and degraded. Pure primary cultures of liver endothelial cells were obtained by a newly developed techn...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Laurent TC,Dahl IM,Dahl LB,Engström-Laurent A,Eriksson S,Fraser JR,Granath KA,Laurent C,Laurent UB,Lilja K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An agarose gel matrix was utilized to grow chondrocytes from human donors of various ages in cell culture. The chondrocytes produced the pericellular matrix characteristic for such cells and synthesized collagen type II as well as glyco-saminoglycans. The latter exhibit the typical distribution pattern of the respecti...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Delbrück A,Dresow B,Gurr E,Reale E,Schröder H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desmoplastic response to breast carcinoma is being studied. The stimulation of stromal cell proliferation by a preformed breast tumor matrix was shown. An additional mechanism for stimulating scleroprotein deposition is described here. On a per-cell basis, the synthesis of collagen and elastin was increased by 50%...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Kao RT,Hall J,Stern R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed analysis of the D-period and axial electron density distribution of cornea and tendon collagen was carried out by means of X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. Ultrastructural observations were made on replicas of freeze fractured and deep-etched specimens. Synchrotron radiation was used to obtain hig...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Marchini M,Morocutti M,Ruggeri A,Koch MH,Bigi A,Roveri N

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental lathyrism was induced by feeding newborn chicks a diet containing 0.2 and 0.4% DL-Penicillamine, with or without CuSO4 (10 mg/Kg diet) and Vitamin B6 (100 mg/Kg diet), or 0.015 and 0.1% beta-aminopropionitrile fumarate (beta-APN). After 7, 15, 25 and 55 days of treatment the animals were killed, the aorta...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Ronchetti IP,Contri MB,Fornieri C,Quaglino D Jr,Mori G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteodermatan sulfate was isolated from the skin of human, female breast in 6-M urea and proteolytic inhibitors at 70 degrees C and purified on Sephacryl S-200. It was composed of 55% protein and 45% dermatan sulfate, displayed one protein and carbohydrate-stainable band on agarose-polyacrylamide gels, yielded dermat...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Longas MO,Fleischmajer R

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of highly purified bovine aortic lysyl oxidase to native fibrils of type I collagen has been measured by assay of unbound lysyl oxidase activity in the supernatants of enzyme-collagen mixtures after centrifugation. The apparent binding affinity of lysyl oxidase for native fibrils is quite similar to that f...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Cronlund AL,Smith BD,Kagan HM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of ascorbic acid, confluent human skin fibroblasts incubated in 0.5% serum-supplemented medium had one-third of the level of lysyl hydroxylase activity of cells incubated in media containing high serum concentrations (5-20%). This difference appeared to be due to a decline in the enzyme activity followi...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Murad S,Sivarajah A,Pinnell SR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) was analyzed in skin samples of eight patients suffering from localized scleroderma, i.e., three having generalized morphoea and five localized morphoea plaques. From each patients, biopsies were obtained from sclerotic and perilesional areas, and from clinically uninvolved...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Møller R,Serup J,Ammitzbøll T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of desmosine following a 5 mg intravenous dose was determined in five sheep. The biological half-life (t 1/2 beta) of desmosine varied between 81-489 min. Urinary recovery of unchanged desmosine indicated that the compound is not extensively metabolized and that the primary route of elimination is...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Verma PS,Hoyt RF Jr,Jackson AJ,Phillips YY

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells derived from organ-explant culture of the cartilaginous component of osteochondrophytic spurs of human femoral heads were incubated with [35S]-sulfate in order to study sulfated proteoglycan biosynthesis in vitro. Secondary monolayer cultures incorporated [35S]-sulfate into macromolecules which were recovered in...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Malemud CJ,Moskowitz RW,Goldberg VM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00