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ArticleFASEB bioAdvances2022

Hyaluronic acid restored protein permeability across injured human lung microvascular endothelial cells.

Shinji Sugita, Yoshifumi Naito, Li Zhou, Hongli He, Qi Hao, Atsuhiro Sakamoto, Jae W Lee

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Article in FASEB bioAdvances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shinji SugitaDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Nippon Medical School Tokyo Japan.
Yoshifumi NaitoDepartment of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco California USA.
Li ZhouDepartment of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco California USA.
Hongli HeDepartment of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco California USA.
Qi HaoDepartment of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco California USA.
Atsuhiro SakamotoDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Nippon Medical School Tokyo Japan.
Jae W LeeDepartment of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco California USA.
University of California, San Francisco · USNippon Medical School · JP

Funding

Therapeutic Use of High Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid in Acute Lung Injury Following Severe Bacterial Pneumonia or SepsisR01HL148781 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ENKHBAATAR, PERENLEI, LEE, JAE WOO · 2020 to 2023
$3.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL148781
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung endothelial permeability is a key pathological feature of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Hyaluronic acid (HA), a major component of the glycocalyx layer on the endothelium, is generated by HA synthase (HAS) during inflammation and injury and is critical for repair. We hypothesized that administration of exogenous high molecular weight (HMW) HA would restore protein permeability across human lung microvascular endothelial cells (HLMVEC) injured by an inflammatory insult via upregulation of HAS by binding to CD44. A transwell coculture system was used to study the effects of HA on protein permeability across HLMVEC injured by cytomix, a mixture of IL-1β, TNFα, and IFNγ, with or without HMW or low molecular weight (LMW) HA. Coincubation with HMW HA, but not LMW HA, improved protein permeability following injury at 24 h. Fluorescence microscopy demonstrated that exogenous HMW HA partially prevented the increase in "actin stress fiber" formation. HMW HA also increased the synthesis of HAS2 mRNA expression and intracellular HMW HA levels in HLMVEC following injury. Pretreatment with an anti-CD44 antibody or 4-methylumbelliferone, a HAS inhibitor, blocked the therapeutic effects. In conclusion, exogenous HMW HA restored protein permeability across HLMVEC injured by an inflammatory insult in part through upregulation of HAS2.

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acute lung injuryCD44glycocalyxhyaluronanhyaluronic acid synthaseprotein permeability

Identifiers

PMID36089980
PMCPMC9447422
OpenAlexW4281651871

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