Chondroitin

Clinical Studies

Characterization of oligosaccharides from the chondroitin/dermatan sulfates. 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR studies of reduced trisaccharides and hexasaccharides.

Comparison of proteoglycan and collagen in articular cartilage of horses with naturally developing osteochondrosis and healing osteochondral fragments of experimentally induced fractures.

Effect of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate on regulation of gene expression of proteolytic enzymes and their inhibitors in interleukin-1-challenged bovine articular cartilage explants.

Effects of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate on mediators of osteoarthritis in cultured equine chondrocytes stimulated by use of recombinant equine interleukin-1beta.

Versican is induced in infiltrating monocytes in myocardial infarction.

Serum hyaluronidase aberrations in metabolic and morphogenetic disorders.

Patients with knee osteoarthritis have lower total hip bone mineral density in the symptomatic leg than in the contralateral hip.

Raised chondroitin sulfate epitopes and hyaluronan in serum from rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis patients.

Fourier Transform Infrared Imaging of focal lesions in human osteoarthritic cartilage.

Rational development of GAG-augmented chitosan membranes by fractional factorial design methodology.

Opticin binds to heparan and chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans.

Differential expression of ADAMTS-1, -4, -5 and TIMP-3 in rat spinal cord at different stages of acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Cancer stem cells in the mammalian central nervous system.

Expression and identification of a new splice variant of neuroglycan C, a transmembrane chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan, in the human brain.

Neonatal and maternal immunological responses to conserved epitopes within the DBL-gamma3 chondroitin sulfate A-binding domain of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1.

[Restoring the skin from traumatism by means of collagen-konjac glucomannan-chondroitin sulfate blend film]

Evaluation of enzymes involved in proteoglycan degradation in the wall of abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Decorin from different bovine tissues: study of glycosaminoglycan chain by PAGEFS.

Surface modification of poly(ethylene terephthalate) via hydrolysis and layer-by-layer assembly of chitosan and chondroitin sulfate to construct cytocompatible layer for human endothelial cells.

An assay for bacterial and eukaryotic chondroitinases using a chondroitin sulfate-binding protein.