[Heparin--new perspectives on its antiinflammatory action]

Heparine is used as a therapeutic anticoagulant. Research carried out in the last years showed in both in vivo and in vitro experiments (also in men), that this is a pleiotropic substance with many diverse activities. Immunoregulatory properties of heparine, including immunosuppressive and most of all anti-proliferative lead to create the theory of its possible use in several chronic inflammatory processes. First experiments seem to justify this opinion.