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Increased Protocollagen Proline Hydroxylase Activity in Sclerodermatous Skin
Harry R. Keiser, MD;
H. David Stein, MD;
Albert Sjoerdsma, MD, PhD
Arch Dermatol. 1971;104(1):57-60.
Abstract
Protocollagen proline hydroxylase (PPH) activity in skin was determined in vitro by radioassay employing a tritium-labeled L-proline-peptide substrate. Average PPH activity was significantly higher in biopsy specimens of both forearm and parasacral skin from 20 patients with scleroderma than in specimens from ten normal subjects and 17 patients with other diseases. These findings offer evidence that collagen synthesis is increased in the skin in scleroderma and suggest that assay of PPH activity in skin may be a useful tool for the diagnosis of this disease.
Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md
From the Experimental Therapeutics Branch, National Heart and Lung Institute, Bethesda, Md.; Dr. Stein is now with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 9, 1970.
Reprint requests to Experimental Therapeutics Branch, NHLI, Rm 7N-262, Bldg 10, NIH, Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md 20014 (Dr. Keiser).
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