You are here

Article Text

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Miscellaneous
Abnormalities of fatty acid metabolism in CF
Free
  1. S Bailey
  1. Clinical Fellow, The Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK; Simon.Bailey@smuht.nwest.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2004.la0086

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    ▴ Freedman SD, Blanco PG, Zaman MM, et al. Association of cystic fibrosis with abnormalities in fatty acid metabolism. N Engl J Med2004;350:560–9
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    This study found low tissue levels of the fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DA) and a raised ratio of arachidonic acid (AA) to DA in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared with healthy controls in nasal and rectal biopsy specimens (p<0.001 and p = 0.009 for the ratios, respectively). In cells from …

    View Full Text