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Query: EC:3.2.1.36 (hyaluronidase)
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An attempt was made to investigate the effects of hyaluronidase on the morphology of the baboon outflow system. The eyes of six adult baboons provided the material for this histological study. For each animal the IOP in both eyes was maintained at 18 mm Hg, and 150 IU of testicular hyaluronidase were introduced into one eye and a control solution into the other. It was observed by light microscopy that the outer meshwork was more distended in the hyaluronidase-treated outflow system than in the corresponding controls. Further, it was found from a quantitative analysis that the incidence of giant vacuoles in the endothelium of Schlemm's canal was greater in the experimental than the control eye of each animal. The difference between the vacuole counts in the experimental and control eyes was significant in five of the six animals. These preliminary findings provide morphological evidence which indicates that there is a hyaluronidase-sensitive barrier to aqueous outflow in the baboon drainage system.
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PMID:A light microscopic study of the effects of testicular hyaluronidase on the outflow system of a baboon (Papio cynocephalus). 10 42

Observations on hyaluronidase difussion from natural and artificial objects to precipitated medium are described. The conclusions from this investigation are: (1) hyaluronidase diffusing from biological objects in a precipitated medium is an active enzyme. (2) hyaluronidase diffusion may be utilized for localization of the enzyme. (3) certain parameters of the reaction hyaluronidase--hyaluronic acid may be measured with the use of the notion "diffusion radius".
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PMID:Analysis of hyaluronidase diffusion for histochemical purposes. 11 24

Thirty-two type specific cultures used in four typing systems for serologically classifying Pasteurella multocida were compared as originally described for: (1) Little and Lyon's plate agglutination test; (2) Carter's indirect hemagglutination test, hyaluronidase decapsulation test, and acriflavine reaction; (3) Namioka's plate and tube agglutination tests; and (4) Heddleston's gel diffusion precipitin test. In addition, seven cultures from Robert's five passive protection groups were included. When reference cultures were examined by the typing system from which they were described, the results generally correlated with those results published. However, serotypes determined by one typing system generally did not correlate with serotypes determined by another system. Cultures of a single serotype in one system often represented more than one serotype in another system. Results indicated that cultures with one or two serotyping antigens in common may differ in other antigens. Because of the antigenic complexity of P multocida and the nature of the antigens involved in each test, a reliable correlation or equality between serotypes determined by different typing systems could not be made.
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PMID:Comparison of Pasteurella multocida serotyping systems. 11 94

Adult rat heart was dissociated into a single cell suspension by a perfusion technique which used 0.05% collagenase and 0.1% hyaluronidase in Krebs-Ringer phosphate buffer (KRP). The non-muscle cells of the suspension were separated from the myocytes by centrifugation through 3% Ficoll solution in KRP with 0.01 mM Ca2+. An approximately 90% pure suspension of isolated single muscle cells was obtained with this method. The effects of the successive steps in the dissociation procedure on the ultrastructure of the heart were studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. After 30 minutes of enzyme digestion, dissociation of the inner endothelial lining of the ventricle into single cells or small groups of cells became apparent. In addition, the underlying cardiac skeleton began to disintegrate and linear arrays of cardiac muscle cells were observed. After 45 minutes of enzyme digestion the number of released single cells was higher because of the separation of intercalated discs. The majority of non-muscle cells were by now dissociated from the surfaces of muscle cells. Widening of the lateral intercellular spaces between the myocardial cells was associated with separation of desmosomes. In some regions of the heart, intact desmosomes, fasciae adherentes and gap junctions were observed even though lateral intercellular spaces had widened greatly. The majority of myocardial cells had become separated from one another after 60 minutes of enzyme digestion. Separation of gap junctional sites took place in two ways: (1) by 'unzipping' them through enzyme action; (2) by tearing them mechanically. Gap junction remnants were sometimes observed in a vesiculated state within the cell. The dissociation of the heart was ineffective when perfused with media containing 1.0 or 2 mM Ca2+. Alcian blue treatment after 60 minutes of enzyme digestion revealed that the basement membrane, and its accompanying collagen fibrils, was still present on the plasma membrane of dissociated single cells. The isolated myocardial cells retained their normal morphological characteristics. This study has enabled us to understand in detail how dismantlement of highly ordered adult cardiac tissue into a single cell suspension takes place. Cell suspensions of this type should be invaluable in the study of metabolic and synthetic activities in adult myocardial cells.
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PMID:Dissociation of adult mammalian heart into single cell suspension: an ultrastructural study. 12 Mar 52

Cartilaginous and/or osseous foci were observed in eight aortas from 20 rabbits immunized against heterologous aorta homogenates and sacrificed 11 to 24 months later. They were studied by means of histological and histochemical methods and compared with normal aortas, cartilage and bone. Some of the observed changes seemed to be true markers of these transformations. Chondroid metaplasia was characterized by 1) generalized increase in alcianophilic hyaluronidase sensitive substances. 2) Appearance of Dermatan and/or Keratan sulfates round some isolated cells. 3) Advent of G6 Pase and Alk. Phase activities in cells adjacent to osseous foci. Osteous metaplasia was characterized by 1) decrease, then disappearance of alcianophilic and PAS positive material, 2) increase in osteoblastic alkaline Pase-activities.
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PMID:Cartilage and bone formation in arterial wall. 1. Morphological and histochemical aspects. 12 Dec 37

Cultured human embryo fibroblasts (HLM18) were labeled with [3H]glucosamine and Na35SO4, and then treated with testicular hyaluronidase, trypsin, or EDTA. Macromolecular material from the surface of these cells was characterized by DEAE-cellulose chromatography and cetylpyridinium chloride precipitation while the associated morphology of cell detachment was studied by phase contrast and scanning electron microscopy. Release of surface glycosaminoglycans by testicular hyaluronidase did not cause cell rounding or detachment. EDTA did not release cell-surface components, but caused cell contraction and detachment morphologically similar to that caused by trypsin. Large amounts of cell-surface glycoproteins and glycosaminoglycans were released by trypsin. From these observations it is concluded that hyaluronic acid is not a principal adhesive agent in the attachment of cells to a substrate. It is suggested that both EDTA and trypsin may have their primary effect upon the cytoskeleton.
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PMID:Effects of hyaluronidase, trypsin, and EDTA on surface composition and topography during detachment of cells in culture. 12 54

Some important enzymes concerned with the biosynthesis of the precursors of glycosaminoglycans (gg), degradation of gg and biological sulphation have been studied in rats fed an atherogenic diet. L-Glutamine-D-fructose-6-phosphate amino-transferase and glucosamine-6-phosphate-N-acetylase--2 enzymes concerned with the biosynthesis of hexosamine precursors of gg--decreased in the liver in rats fed the atherogenic diet. UDPG pyrophosphorylase, UDPG dehydrogenase and UDPG glucuronic acid-5'-epimerase, which are concerned with the biosynthesis of the uronic precursors of gg, also decreased in the liver in the diet-fed rats. The activities of some of the enzymes concerned with degradation of gg-hyaluronidase, beta-glucuronidase beta-hexosaminidase, cathepsin and aryl sulphatase--increased both in the liver and aorta. The hepatic concentration of PAPS significantly decreased in the diet-fed rats. The sulphate-activating system, which includes ATP sulphurylase, APS kinase and sulphotransferase, also decreased. Thus the overall picture is one of decreased synthesis of gg and their increased degradation in the atheromatous rats.
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PMID:Metabolism of glycosaminoglycans in atheromatous rats. Enzymes concerned with synthesis, degradation and sulphation of glycosaminoglycans. 12 76

Histological changes in the wall of the copulatory sac of normal adult female thorny skates, Raja radiata, were compared with those naturally infected with Trichodina oviducti. The parasites were associated with extensive defoliation of the copulatory epithelium and in some instances had penetrated the submucosa resulting in petechiae. An excessive exudated that appeared at the vent was made up of mucus, sloughed cells and parasites. It is speculated that shedding of the copulatory epithelium may be due to a hyaluronidase-like enzyme. Furthermore, the restriction of T. oviducti to adult skates may be dependent on the presence of certain mucopolysaccharides that are very low or absent in immature skates.
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PMID:Histological changes associated with trichodinid infections in thorny skates, Raja radiata Donovan. 12 86

We have asked whether treatment of normal cultured cells with proteases, other hydrolytic enzymes, or serum can convert them into transient phenocopies of transformed cells with respect to the very high rate of hexose transport characteristic of transformed cells. Treatment of density-inhibited cultures of normal chick embryo fibroblasts with trypsin, plasmin, neuraminidase, or hyaluronidase stimulated their rate of 2-deoxyglucose uptake to a level only marginally higher than that seen in normal exponentially growing cultures, and only 35-45% of that seen in transformed cultures. Addition of the hydrolytic enzymes to growing cell cultures had little effect on 2-deoxyglucose uptake. Serum, however, could stimulate 2-deoxyglucose uptake all the way up to the transformed level. Even though the hydrolases and serum differed in their ability to stimulate 2-deoxyglucose uptake, both reagents were capable of stimulating cell division equally well. Evidence is presented suggesting that the hexose transport rate is controlled by serum factors, and that proteolysis can affect the response of the cells of these factors.
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PMID:Hydrolase and serum treatment of normal chick embryo cells: effects on hexose transport. 12 53

The clinical, biochemical, morphological and electrophysiological findings in a 13-month-old child, who died of glycogenosis type II, is presented. In addition to the deficiency of alpha-1,4-glucosidase, which is typical for the disease, a deficiency in hyaluronidase could be detected for the first time in the skeletal and heart muscles and in the liver. On the other hand, the beta-glucoronidase and beta-acetylglucosaminidase activity was highly increased. Deposits of a substance, most probably an acid mucopolysaccharide, which could be differentiated from glycogen by chromography and electronmicroscopy, could be detected in the muscle. A pathogenetical connection with the hyaluronidase defect is imminent.
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PMID:[Clinical, biochemical, morphological and electrophysiological studies of glycogenosis Type II in childhood with double deficiency of enzymes (author's transl)]. 12 55


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