Examination of synovial fluid and serum hyaluronidase activity as a joint marker in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis patients (by zymography)

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 186-188

  Nagaya, Hiroshige ^a   Ymagata, Tatsuya ^b   Ymagata, Sadako ^c   Lyoda, Kazuto ^a   Ito, Haruo ^a   Hasegawa, Yukiharu ^b   Iwata, Hisashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ZYMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032961794     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.58.3.186     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Engström-Laurent A, Hällgren R. Circulating hyaluronic acid levels vary with physical activity in healthy subjects and in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Relationship to synovitis mass and morning stiffness. Arthritis Rheum 1987;30:1333-8.
2. Levesque H, Delpech B, Leloet X, Deshayes P. Serum hyaluronate in rheumatoid arthritis: Study by affinoimmunoenzymatic assay. Br J Rheumatol 1988;27:445-9.
3. Sharif M, George E, Shepstone L, Knudson \V, Thonar EJ-MA, Cushnaghan J, et al. Serum hyaluronic acid level as a predictor of disease progression in osteoarthritis of the knee. Arthritis Rheum I995;38:760-7.
4. Engström-Laurent A, Hällgren R. Circulating hyaluronate in rheumatoid arthritis: relationship to inflammatory activity and the effect of corticosteroid therapy. Ann Rheum Dis 1985;44:83-8.
5. Fiszer-Szafarz B. Hyaluronidase polymorphism detected by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Application to hyaluronidases from bacteria, slime molds, bee and snake venoms, bovine testes, rat liver lysosomes, and human serum. Anal Biochem 1984;143:76-81.
6. Kellgren JH, Lawrence JS. Radiological assessment of osteo-arthrosis. Ann Rheum Dis 1957;16:494-501.
7. Altman R, Asch E, Bloch D, Bole G, Borenstein D, Brandt K, et al. Development of criteria for the classification and reporting of osteoarthritis. Classification of osteoarthritis of the knee. Arthritis Rheum 1986;29:1039-49.
8. Guntenhöner M, Anthonypogrel M, Stern R. A substrategel assay for hyaluronidase activity. Matrix 1992;12:388-96.
9. Miura R, Yamagata S, Miura Y, Harada T, Yamagata T. Analysis of glycosaminoglycan-degrading enzymes by substrate gel electrophoresis (zymography). Anal Biochem 1995;225:333-40.
10. Hutchinson RM, Davis P, Jayson MIV. Thrombocytosis in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 1976;35:138-42.
11. Myers SL, Brandt KD, Ehlich JW, Braunstein EM, Shelbourne KD, Heck DA, et al. Synovial inflammation in patients with early osteoarthritis of the knee. J Rheumatol 1990;17:1662-9.
12. Spector TD, Hart DJ, Nandra D, Doyle DV, Mackillop N, Gallimore JR, et ai. Low-level increases in serum c-reactive protein are present in early osteoarthritis of the knee and predict progressive disease. Arthritis Rheum 1997;40: 723-7.
13. Paimela L, Heiskanen A, Kurki P, Helve T, Leirisalq-Repo M. Serum hyaluronate level as a predictor of radiologie progression in early rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1991;34:815-21.
14. Goldberg RL, Huff JP, Lenz ME, Glickman P, Katz R, Thonar EJ-MA. Elevated plasma levels of hyaluronate in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1991;34:799-807.
15. Gregory IF, Tony C, Robert S. The hyaluronidases: A chemical, biological and clinical overview. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology 1996;44:419-34.