Raised serum hyaluronate levels in scleroderma: an effect of growth factor induced activation of connective tissue cells?

Preliminary criteria for the classification of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)

1980 • 4,703 citations

Mixed connective tissue disease-an apparently distinct rheumatic disease syndrome associated with a specific antibody to an extractable nuclear antigen (ENA)

1972 • 1,816 citations

Platelet alpha-granule proteins: studies on release and subcellular localization

1979 • 451 citations

Human plasma epidermal growth factor/beta-urogastrone is associated with blood platelets.

1983 • 414 citations

Plasma clearance, tissue distribution and metabolism of hyaluronic acid injected intravenously in the rabbit

1981 • 333 citations

Vascular Disease in Progressive Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma)

1970 • 312 citations

Studies in vitro on the uptake and degradation of sodium hyaluronate in rat liver endothelial cells

1984 • 293 citations

Endothelial cells are a site of uptake and degradation of hyaluronic acid in the liver

1983 • 286 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor: Identification of constituent polypeptide chains

1982 • 275 citations

Improved medium for clonal growth of human diploid fibroblasts at low concentrations of serum protein

1977 • 272 citations

Increased Serum Levels of Hyaluronate in Liver Disease

1985 • 251 citations

Concentration of sodium hyaluronate in serum

1985 • 228 citations

Circulating hyaluronate in rheumatoid arthritis: relationship to inflammatory activity and the effect of corticosteroid therapy.

1985 • 207 citations

Determination of hyaluronate in biological samples by a specific radioassay technique

1980 • 203 citations

The isolation and characterisation of a platelet-specific β-globulin (β-thromboglobulin) and the detection of antiurokinase and antiplasmin released from thrombin-aggregated washed human platelets

1975 • 184 citations

ELIMINATION OF HYALURONIC ACID FROM THE BLOOD STREAM IN THE HUMAN

1984 • 183 citations

Scleroderma and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

1970 • 147 citations

Connective tissue activation

1980 • 142 citations

Tissue uptake of circulating hyaluronic acid

1983 • 128 citations

Elevated Levels of Circulating Platelet Aggregates and Beta-Thromboglobulin in Scleroderma

1982 • 123 citations

Scleroderma and the Subcutaneous Tissue

1971 • 116 citations

Glycosaminoglycans in Scleroderma and Scleredema

1972 • 114 citations

Assay and partial purification of factors from serum that control multiplication of human diploid fibroblasts

1978 • 78 citations

Distribution of biologically labelled radioactive hyaluronic acid injected into joints.

1973 • 74 citations

The concentration of hyaluronate in amniotic fluid

1983 • 68 citations

Connective tissue activation

1979 • 66 citations

Interrelationship between stimulation of prostaglandin e and hyaluronate production by poly (i).Poly (c) and interferon in synovial fibroblast culture

1978 • 66 citations

Hyaluronate in aqueous humour

1981 • 50 citations

Solubility of skin collagen in normal human subjects and in patients with generalised scleroderma

1971 • 38 citations

Direct immunofluorescence in the diagnosis of scleroderma syndromes

1977 • 37 citations

Connective tissue activation. XVIII. Stimulation of hyaluronic acid synthetase activity.

1980 • 34 citations

Connective tissue activation

1983 • 24 citations

Increased biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans by scleroderma fibroblasts in culture

1984 • 24 citations

SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED WITH AUTO-IMMUNE HAEMOLYTIC ANAEMIA*

1970 • 18 citations

Scleroderma and urinary excretion of acidic glycosaminoglycans.

1971 • 8 citations

Elevated Levels of Antibodies to Polyuridylic Acid Detected and Quantitated in Systemic Scleroderma Patients by Solid Phase Radioimmunoassay

1980 • 5 citations