Fatty acids are organic acids with at least one carboxyl (-C(=O)OH, -COOH or -CO2H) group and a long carbon chain that can be joined by double bonds, as in unsaturated fatty acids, or single bonds ...

Excess alcohol consumption with consequent alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and metabolic syndrome-related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are recognized as the most common causes of liver ...

They serve as an energy source for maintenance, milk production, body weight gain and performance. Fats can be defined as compounds that have a high content of long-chain fatty acids (FA) including ...

When considering genetic modifiers of ALD and NAFLD, one should first consider those genes that influence etiologic factors causally linked to the disease. These are exemplified by the associated ...

When William was days old, he was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy — or ALD — a rare genetic disease affecting one in 17,000 people.

At just five days old, William was flagged during a newborn screening for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare ... which prevents the body from breaking down very long-chain fatty acids. These ...

Introduction: Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have been widely studied and used as nutritional supplements because of their anti-inflammatory effects. Previous studies have shown an ...

Hepatologists, specialists in liver diseases, differentiate between alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). While NAFLD involves the fatty degeneration of ...

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. ("Viking") (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders, today announced its ...