Essential fatty acid metabolism and its modification in atopic eczema
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Essential fatty acid metabolism and its modification in atopic eczema.
Research from the 1930s to the 1950s established that a deficit of n-6 essential fatty acids (EFAs) leads to an inflammatory skin condition in both animals and humans. In a common inherited skin condition, atopic dermatitis (eczema), there was evidence of low blood EFA concentrations and of a therapeutic response to exceptionally high doses of linoleic acid. More recently, it has been establish...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/71.1.367s