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Fatty Acid Metabolic Defects and Right Ventricular Lipotoxicity in Human Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Author(s) -
Evan L. Brittain,
Megha Talati,
Joshua P. Fessel,
He Zhu,
Niki Penner,
M. Wade Calcutt,
James West,
Mitch Funke,
Gregory D. Lewis,
Robert E. Gerszten,
Rizwan Hamid,
Meredith E. Pugh,
Eric D. Austin,
John H. Newman,
Anna R. Hemnes
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.115.019351
Subject(s) - lipotoxicity , medicine , endocrinology , triglyceride , fatty acid , fatty acid metabolism , steatosis , in vivo , metabolism , cholesterol , chemistry , biology , biochemistry , insulin resistance , insulin , microbiology and biotechnology
The mechanisms of right ventricular (RV) failure in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are poorly understood. Abnormalities in fatty acid (FA) metabolism have been described in experimental models of PAH, but systemic and myocardial FA metabolism has not been studied in human PAH.

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