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THE presence of hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulphates in the intima-media layers of human aortic tissue was first demonstrated in this department by chemical investigations conducted by Kirk et al.1–3. These observations have been confirmed in subsequent investigations by Kaplan and Meyer4 and by Buddecke5, and the isolation of heparitin sulphate from the human abdominal aorta has been reported by Linker et al.6. Investigations by Sundberg7 have revealed the presence of an appreciable number of mast cells in the adventitia of the human abdominal aorta; but no chemical assays of the mucopolysaccharides in the aortic adventitia have as yet been reported.
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MURATA, K., KIRK, J. & ASAWA, G. Acid Mucopolysaccharides of Human Aortic Adventitia. Nature 202, 1334–1335 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021334b0
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