Quantitative determination of hyaluronan content in cerebral aneurysms by digital densitometry

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 207-212

  Klekner, Álmos ^a   Felszeghy, S ^b   Tammi, R ^c   Tammi, M ^c   Csecsei G ^a   Modis L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Digital densitometry; Extracellular matrix; Hyaluronan

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DENSITOMETRY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISCOSITY;

EID: 28844486821     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-836670     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Berenson GS, Radhakrishnamurthy B, Srinivasan SR, Vijayagopal P, Dalferes ER, Sharma C. Recent advances in molecular pathology: carbohydrate-protein macromolecules and arterial wall integrity - a role in atherogenesis. Exp Mol Pathol 1984; 41: 267-287
2. Brown JA. The role of hyaluronic acid in wound healing's proliferative phase. J Wound Care 2004; 13: 48-51
3. Burke AP, Jarvelainen H, Kolodgie FD, Goel A, Wight TN, Virmani R. Superficial pseudoaneurysms: clinicopathologic aspects and involvement of extracellular matrix proteoglycans. Mod Pathol 2004; 17: 482-488
4. Cattell MA, Hasleton PS, Anderson JC. Glycosaminoglycan content is increased in dissecting aneurysms of human thoracic aorta. Clin Chim Acta 1994; 226: 29-46
5. de Paepe A, Landegem W van, de Keyser F, de Reuck J. Association of multiple intracranial aneurysms and collagen type III deficiency. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1988; 90: 53-56
6. Evanko SP, Johnson PY, Braun KR, Underhill CB, Dudhia J, Wight TN. Platelet-derived growth factor stimulates the formation of versican-hyaluronan aggregates and pericellular matrix expansion in arterial smooth muscle cells. Arch Biochem Biophys 2001; 394: 29-38
7. Fang H. A comparison of blood vessels of the brain and peripheral blood vessels. In: Wright IS, MillikanCH (eds). Cerebral Vascular Diseases. Grune and Stratton, New York 1958; 17-22
8. Farb A, Kolodgie FD, Hwang JY, Burke AP, Tefera K, Weber DK, Wight TN, Virmani R. Extracellular matrix changes in stented human coronary arteries. Circulation 2004; 110: 940-947
9. Fraser JR, Laurent TC, Laurent UB. Hyaluronan: its nature, distribution, functions and turnover. J Intern Med 1997; 242: 27-33
10. Gaetani P, Tartara F, Tancioni F, Rodriguez y Baena R, Casari E, Alfano M, Grazioli V. Deficiency of total collagen content and of deoxypyridinoline in intracranial aneurysm walls. FEBS Lett 1997; 404: 303-306
11. Gaetani P, Tartara F, Grazioli V, Tancioni F, Infuso L, Rodriguez y Baena R. Collagen cross-linkage, elastolytic and collagenolytic activities in cerebral aneurysms: a preliminary investigation. Life Sci 1998; 63: 285-292
12. Gutierrez PS, Reis MM, Higuchi ML, Aiello VD, Stolf NAG, Lopes EA. Distribution of hyaluronan and dermatan/chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in human aortic dissection. Connect Tissue Res 1998; 37: 151-161
13. Hsu S, Jamieson AM, Blackwell J. Viscoelastic studies of extracellular matrix interactions in a model native collagen gel system. Biorheology 1994; 31: 21-36
14. Isacke CM, Yarwood H. The hyaluronan receptor, CD44. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2002; 34: 718-721
15. Kassam A, Horowitz M, Chang YF, Peters D. Altered arterial homeostasis and cerebral aneurysms: a review of the literature and justification for a search of molecular biomarkers. Neurosurgery 2004; 54: 1199-1212
16. Krex D, Schackert HK, Schakert G. Genesis of cerebral aneurysms - an update. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2001; 143: 429-449
17. Ostergaard JR. Risk factors in intracranial saccular aneurysms. Aspects on the formation and rupture of aneurysms and development of cerebral vasospasm. Acta Neurol Scand 1989; 80: 81-98
18. Ripellino JA, Klinger MM, Margolis RU, Margolis RK. The hyaluronic acid binding region as a specific probe for the localization of hyaluronic acid in tissue sections. Application to chick embryo and rat brain. J Histochem Cytochem 1985; 33: 1060-1066
19. Rooney P, Kumar S. Inverse relationship between hyaluronan and collagens in development and angiogenesis. Differentiation 1993; 54: 1-9
20. Ross R. Atherosclerosis: a defense mechanism gone away. Am J Pathol 1993; 14: 987-1001
21. Sainte-Marie G. A paraffin embedding technique for studies employing immuno-fluorescence. J Histochem Cytochem 1962; 10: 250-256
22. Schievink WI, Link MJ, Piepgras DG, Spetzler RF. Intracranial aneurysm surgery in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Type IV. Neurosurgery 2002; 51: 607-611
23. Schönherr E, Jarvelainen HT, Sandell LJ, Wight TN. Platelet derived growth factor and transforming growth factor-β1 differentially affect the synthesis of biglycan and decorin by monkey smooth muscle cells. J Biol Chem 1991; 266: 17640-17647
24. Scott JE, Cummings C, Brass A, Chen Y. Secondary and tertiary structures of hyaluronan in aqueous solution, investigated by rotary shadowing-electron microscopy and computer simulation. Hyaluronan is a very efficient network-forming polymer. BiochemJ 1991; 15: 699-705
25. Tammi R, Ripellino JA, Margolis RU, Maibach HI, Tammi M. Hyaluronate accumulation in human epidermis treated with retinoic acid in skin organ culture. J Invest Dermatol 1989; 92: 326-332
26. Tammi R, Rönkkö S, Ågren U, Tammi M. Distribution of hyaluronan in bull reproductive organs. J Histochem Cytochem 1994; 42: 1479-1486
27. Tammi R, Maccallum P, Huscall VC, Pienimaki JP, Hyttinen M, Tammi M. Hyaluronan bound to CD44 on keratinocytes is displaced by hyaluronan decasaccharides and not hexasaccharides. J Biol Chem 1998; 273: 28878-28888
28. Toole BP. Hyaluronan in morphogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2001; 12: 79-87
29. Tuckett F, Morris-Kay G. Alcian blue staining of glycosaminoglycans in embryonic material: effect of different fixatives. Histochem J 1988; 20: 174-182
30. van der Berg JS, Limburg M, Pals G, Arwert F, Westerveld A, Hennekam RC, Albrecht KW. Some patients with intracranial aneurysms have a reduced type III/type I collagen ratio. A case control study. Neurology 1997; 49: 1546-1551
31. Weigel PH, Hascall VC, Tammi M. Hyaluronan synthases. J Biol Chem 1997; 272: 13997-14000
32. Wight TN. Vessel proteoglycans and thrombogenesis. Prog Hemost Thromb 1980; 5: 1-39
33. Wight TN. Cell biology of arterial proteoglycans. Arteriosclerosis 1989; 9: 1-20
34. Wight TN, Merrilees MJ. Proteoglycans in atherosclerosis and restenosis: key roles for versican. Circ Res 2004; 94: 1158-1167
35. Yanagishita M. Function of the proteoglycans in the extracellular matrix. Acta Pathol Jpn 1993; 43: 283-293
36. rd ed., W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia 1990; 1644
37. Zákány R, Bakó É, Felszeghy S, Holló K, Balázs M, Bárdos H, Gergely P, Módis L. Okadaic acid induced inhibition of protein phosphatase 2A enhances chondrogenesis in chicken limb bud micromass cell cultures. Anat Embryol 2001; 203: 23-34