title: Actions of exogenous heparan sulfate and hyaluronic acid on growth and thymidine incorporation of normal and transformed human fibroblasts. A comparison with the effects of high cell density and low serum concentration and a warning against thymidine incorporation as a measure of DNA synthesis.
abstract: Treatment of normal human (WI-38) cells with exogenous heparan sulfate (HS) reduced cell growth and incorporation of radio-isotope-labeled thymidine (TdR) into DNA. In spite that growth of their transformants (WI-38 CT-1) was enhanced by HS treatment, transformed cells also decreased in TdR incorporation thereby. This peculiar observation was explained by a reduction of TdR uptake, leading to a decrease in specific radioactivity of newly synthesized DNA. The changes in cell growth and TdR incorporation by HS treatment were revealed to be similar to the changes with increasing cell density rather than by serum starvation.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matuoka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mitsui
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murota
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Namba
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003260:Contact Inhibition; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006497:Heparan Sulfate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D006820:Hyaluronic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013936:Thymidine / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans; D006497:Heparan Sulfate; D006820:Hyaluronic Acid; D013936:Thymidine