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Descriptor English: Mucinoses
Descriptor Spanish: Mucinosis
Descriptor mucinosis
Scope note: Estado mucoide que se caracteriza por deposición elevada y acumulación de mucina (mucopolisacáridos) en el tejido dérmico. Los fibroblastos son responsables de la producción de mucopolisacáridos ácidos (GLICOSAMINOGLICANOS) en la sustancia basal del tejido conectivo. Ellos se acumulan en grandes cantidades en la dermis cuando los fibroblastos producen cantidades anormalmente elevadas de mucopolisacáridos del tipo del ácido hialurónico, condroitín sulfato, o heparina.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mucinoses
Descriptor French: Mucinoses
Entry term(s): Mucinosis
Tree number(s): C17.300.550
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017520
Scope note: Mucoid states characterized by the elevated deposition and accumulation of mucin (mucopolysaccharides) in dermal tissue. The fibroblasts are responsible for the production of acid mucopolysaccharides (GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS) in the ground substance of the connective tissue system. When fibroblasts produce abnormally large quantities of mucopolysaccharides as hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, or heparin, they accumulate in large amounts in the dermis.
Annotation: elevated deposition of mucin in skin
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Mucins (1966-1992)
Skin Diseases (1966-1992)
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
DeCS ID: 30651
Unique ID: D017520
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Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/22
Revision Date: 1993/06/02
Mucinoses - Preferred
Concept UI M0026583
Scope note Mucoid states characterized by the elevated deposition and accumulation of mucin (mucopolysaccharides) in dermal tissue. The fibroblasts are responsible for the production of acid mucopolysaccharides (GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS) in the ground substance of the connective tissue system. When fibroblasts produce abnormally large quantities of mucopolysaccharides as hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, or heparin, they accumulate in large amounts in the dermis.
Preferred term Mucinoses
Entry term(s) Mucinosis



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