“…Both isoenzymes recognize terminal N-acetylglucosamine and Nacetylgalactosamine, but only isoenzyme A recognizes 6-sulfated residues of these sugars (Winchester, 1996). HEX is active in most tissues and organs such as kidney (Skalova, 2005), spleen (Emiliani et al, 1999), liver (Elsafi et al, 1994), mucous membrane of stomach and intestine (Gil-Martin et al, 1999;Michaels & Hellequist, 2001), cortex (Hammarsund et al, 2004), lung (Baritussio et al, 2001;Minami et al, 1985), epidermal fibroblasts (Ichisaka et al, 1998), placenta (Arciuch et al, 1999) and neoplastic tissues (Bhuvarahamurthy & Govindsamy, 1996;Lerner, 1996;Matsuura et al, 2004). HEX is used as a marker for monitoring the course of sereval diseases like chronic glomerulonephritis (Bazzi et al, 2002), urinaemia (Linko-Lopponen, 1986;Stabellini et al, 2005), arterial hypertension (Perez-Blanco, 1996), Sjogren's syndrom (Sohar et al, 2005), advanced stadium of diabetes (Nakazawa & Tamai, 1991), rheumatoid arthritis (Popko et al, 2005), idiopathic juvenile arthritis (Popko et al, 2003), osteoarthritis (Liu et al, 2004) and for evaluation of kindney function after transplantation (Kotanko et al, 1996).…”