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“However, carrageenan is three orders of magnitude more potent than heparin , a form of cell-free heparan sulfate that has been regarded as a highly effective model HPV inhibitor.”
“… heparin into the dorsal cervical region … before the intrapedal administration of carrageenin significantly impaired the local inflammatory reaction from 2 h through to 6 h. This observation implies that the release … from tissue mast cells may play a role in modulating the extent of the response to inflammatory insults.”
International archives of allergy and applied immunology • 1988 | View Paper
“The inductive effect of heparin could be mimicked by iota carrageenan or dextran sulfates but not by hyaluronic acid, dermatan sulfate, or chondroitin sulfates.”