Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Determines Anandamide-induced Cell Death in the Liver
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Fatty acid amide hydrolase determines anandamide-induced cell death in the liver.
The endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA) induces cell death in many cell types, but determinants of AEA-induced cell death remain unknown. In this study, we investigated the role of the AEA-degrading enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) in AEA-induced cell death in the liver. Primary hepatocytes expressed high levels of FAAH and were completely resistant to AEA-induced cell death, whereas prima...
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Memory, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4625 (D.F., S.G., D.P.), Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”,Piazza del Rinascimento 6, I-61029 Urbino, Italy (A.D., A.T., G.T.) and Dipartimento Farmaceutico, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 27/A, I-43100 Parma, Italy (M.M.) JPET Fast Forward. Published...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m509706200