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ArticleJournal of inherited metabolic disease2011

Heparin cofactor II-thrombin complex and dermatan sulphate:chondroitin sulphate ratio are biomarkers of short- and long-term treatment effects in mucopolysaccharide diseases.

Kia Jane Langford-Smith, Jean Mercer, June Petty, Karen Tylee, Heather Church, Jane Roberts, Gill Moss, Simon Jones, Rob Wynn, J Ed Wraith and 1 more

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Article in Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
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  3. Detection of Glycosaminoglycans in Biological Specimens.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  4. Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI, an Updated Overview of the Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
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  6. Advances in glycosaminoglycan detection.Molecular genetics and metabolism · 2020
    Review
  7. Diagnosis of Mucopolysaccharidoses.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Review
  8. Review
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  14. Neonatal Systemic AAV Induces Tolerance to CNS Gene Therapy in MPS I Dogs and Nonhuman Primates.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2015
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  16. Intrathecal gene therapy corrects CNS pathology in a feline model of mucopolysaccharidosis I.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2014
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  17. Liver-directed gene therapy corrects cardiovascular lesions in feline mucopolysaccharidosis type I.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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  18. Review
  19. Glycan-based biomarkers for mucopolysaccharidoses.Molecular genetics and metabolism · 2014
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Kia Jane Langford-SmithMPS Stem Cell Research Group, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
Jean Mercer
June Petty
Karen Tylee
Heather Church
Jane Roberts
Gill Moss
Simon Jones
Rob Wynn
J Ed Wraith
Brian W Bigger
St Mary's Hospital · GBSt. Mary's Hospital · GBUniversity of Manchester · GBRoyal Manchester Children's Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early detection of mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is an important factor in treatment success; therefore, good disease biomarkers are vital. We evaluate heparin cofactor II-thrombin complex (HCII-T) as a biomarker in serum and dried blood spots (DBS) of MPS patients. Serum HCII-T and urine dermatan sulphate:chondroitin sulphate (DS:CS) ratio are also compared longitudinally against clinical outcomes in MPSI, II and VI patients following treatment. Samples were collected from MPS patients at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. DS:CS ratio was obtained by measuring the area density of spots from 2D electrophoresis of urinary glycosaminoglycans. Serum and DBS HCII-T was measured by sandwich ELISA. Serum HCII-T is elevated approximately 25-fold in MPS diseases that store DS, clearly distinguishing untreated MPSI, II and VI patients from unaffected age-matched controls. Serum HCII-T is also elevated in MPSIII, which leads to storage of heparan sulphate, with an increase of approximately 4-fold over unaffected age-matched controls. Urine DS:CS ratio and serum HCII-T decrease in response to treatment of MPSI, II and VI patients. HCII-T appears to respond rapidly to perturbations in treatment, whilst DS:CS ratio responds more slowly. HCII-T is a suitable biomarker for MPSI, II and VI, and it may also be informative for MPS diseases storing HS alone, such as MPSIII, although the elevation observed is smaller. In treated MPS patients, HCII-T and DS:CS ratio appear to measure short-term and long-term treatment outcomes, respectively. The potential value of HCII-T measurement in DBS for newborn screening of MPS diseases warrants further investigation.

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AnimalsBiomarkersChildChild, PreschoolChondroitin SulfatesDermatan SulfateEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayGlycosaminoglycansHeparin Cofactor IIHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMiceNeonatal ScreeningThrombinTreatment OutcomeBiomarkersChondroitin SulfatesDermatan SulfateGlycosaminoglycansHeparin Cofactor IIThrombin

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PMCPMC3063559
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