Sentences with phrase «associated fibrotic»

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Research Focus: My research projects are focused on the roles of TNF family members linked to fibrotic disorders associated with scleroderma, atopic dermatitis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and asthma.

High levels of heart disease are associated with selenium - deficient soil in Finland and a tendency to fibrotic heart lesions is associated with selenium deficiency in parts of China.

Rape seed is unsuited to human consumption because it contains a very - long - chain fatty acid called erucic acid, which under some circumstances is associated with fibrotic heart lesions.

Unfortunately, about two - thirds of the mono - unsaturated fatty acids in rapeseed oil are erucic acid, a 22 - carbon monounsaturated fatty acid that had been associated with Keshan's disease, characterized by fibrotic lesions of the heart.

In areas where there is a selenium deficiency, use of rapeseed oil has been associated with a high incidence of fibrotic lesions of the heart, called Keshan's disease.20 The animal studies carried out over the past twenty years suggest that when rapeseed oil is used in impoverished human diets, without adequately saturated fats from ghee, coconut oil or lard, then the deleterious effects are magnified.