2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cleavage of sulfated glycan as a regulatory event for inflammatory responses to infection and chemical compounds
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25460165
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Environmental and hygienic pharmacy
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| Research Institution | Hoshi University (2016)
The University of Tokyo (2013-2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 環境系薬学 / 感染 / 炎症 / 好中球 / マスト細胞 / 細胞外マトリックス / ヘパラナーゼ / ケモカイン |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Acute inflammation as a cause of infection occasionally expands to whole body, which gives rise to fatal systemic infection. Apart from previous approaches focusing on identification of critical mediators, our focus is on microenvironments that help a variety of mediators’ action, also degrading process of extracellular matrices. Heparanase is an enzyme involved in basement membrane degradation as well as enhanced release of inflammatory mediators resulting from cleavage of heparan sulfate. Our goal is to elucidate how inflammatory reaction is regulated by cleavage of sulfated carbohydrates, also to suppress inflammation through inhibition of heparanase activity. We examined a novel regulatory mechanism of inflammation of via cleavage of heparin sulfate/heparin, therapeutic effect of a heparanase inhibitor on inflammatory diseases, and a novel proinflammatory cytokine-like action of heparanase.
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| Free Research Field |
医歯薬学
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