10-hydroxy-cis-12-octadecenoic acid (HYA), a gut microbial metabolite of linoleic acid, has a suppressive effect on intestinal inflammation, researchers have discovered. HYA is expected to be ...

In addition to safety data gathered in the previously mentioned studies, three trials specically assessed the safety of CLA. In two trials, 57 nondiabetic obese Swedish men randomly received 3.4 g of ...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), including Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis, are hard to completely cure. Globally, IBDs affect more than 4 million people, today. However, Professor Soichi ...

The Crepis palaestina cDNA Cpal2 encodes a Δ12-epoxygenase that can catalyse the synthesis of 12,13-epoxy-cis-9-octadecenoic acid (18:1E) from linoleic acid (18:2). When the Cpal2 gene was expressed ...