Effects of dietary supplementation with eicosapentaenoic acid or gamma-linolenic acid on neutrophil phospholipid fatty acid composition and activation responses

Effects of fasting on disease activity,

Effects of fasting on disease activity, neutrophil function, fatty acid composition, and leukotriene biosynthesis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

✍ Ingiäld Hafström; Bo Ringertz; Hans Gyllenhammar; Jan Palmblad; Mats Harms-Ringd 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 816 KB

Fourteen patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were studied before, during, and after a 1-week total fast. Disease activity decreased, as did the neutrophil release of lysozyme induced by the ionophore A23187. The ability of zymosan-activated RA patient serum to aggregate control neutrophils was r