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ArticleScientific reports2017

Overexpression of heparanase enhances T lymphocyte activities and intensifies the inflammatory response in a model of murine rheumatoid arthritis.

Andreas Digre, Kailash Singh, Magnus Åbrink, Rogier M Reijmers, Stellan Sandler, Israel Vlodavsky, Jin-Ping Li

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Pathophysiological Functions of Heparanases: From Evolution, Structural and Tissue-Specific Perspectives.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  9. Serum Heparanase: A New Clinical Biomarker Involved in Senile Metabolic Inflammatory Syndrome.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021
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  10. Significance of host heparanase in promoting tumor growth and metastasis.Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology · 2020
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  20. Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans as Relays of Neuroinflammation.The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Andreas DigreDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Uppsala, The Biomedical Center, Box 582, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Kailash SinghDepartment of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, The Biomedical Center, Box 571, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Magnus ÅbrinkDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Section of Immunology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, VHC, Box 7028, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden.
Rogier M ReijmersDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Stellan SandlerDepartment of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, The Biomedical Center, Box 571, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Israel VlodavskyCancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Jin-Ping LiDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Uppsala, The Biomedical Center, Box 582, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Uppsala University · SEAmsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heparanase is an endo-glucuronidase that degrades heparan sulfate chains. The enzyme is expressed at a low level in normal organs; however, elevated expression of heparanase has been detected in several inflammatory conditions, e.g. in the synovial joints of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Herein, we have applied the model of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) to transgenic mice overexpressing human heparanase (Hpa-tg) along with wildtype (WT) mice. About 50% of the induced animals developed clinical symptoms, i.e. swelling of joints, and there were no differences between the Hpa-tg and WT mice in the incidence of disease. However, Hpa-tg mice displayed an earlier response and developed more severe symptoms. Examination of cells from thymus, spleen and lymph nodes revealed increased innate and adaptive immune responses of the Hpa-tg mice, reflected by increased proportions of macrophages, antigen presenting cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cells as well as Helios-positive CD4

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AnimalsAntigens, CDArthritis, ExperimentalArthritis, RheumatoidChickensDisease Models, AnimalGlucuronidaseHeparanaseImmunity, InnateInflammationInterferon-gammaInterleukin-17Lymph NodesLymphocyte CountMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicAntigens, CDGlucuronidaseHeparanaseInterferon-gammaInterleukin-17

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PMID28401953
PMCPMC5388921
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