“…It has also been detected in the urine and has been called urine protein-1 (Jackson et al, 1988). This protein possesses varied biochemical and biological properties including phospholipase A2(PLAA)-inhibitory (Levin et al, 1986), immunomodulatory (Mukherjee et al, 1982(Mukherjee et al, , 1983)/antiinflammatory properties (Levin et al, 1984;Miele et al, 1988;Mukherjee et al, 1988;Camussi et al, 1990a,b,c;Chan et al, 1990Chan et al, , 1991Di Rosa and Ialenti, 1990;Ialenti et al, 1990;Facchiano et al, 199l;Tetta etal, 1991;Perretti etal, 1991;Cabre' et al, 1992;Moreno et al, 1995). It binds xenobiotic agents such as progesterone (Beato, 1976(Beato, , 1977Fridlansky and Milgrom, 1976;Alger etal., 1980;Bochskanl and Kirchner, 1981;Peter, 1992), polychlorinated biphenyls (Gillener et al, 1988;NordlundMoller et al, 1990), and retinol (Lopez de Haro et al, 1994).…”