Nature Communications (May 2022)

Omega-3 fatty acid epoxides produced by PAF-AH2 in mast cells regulate pulmonary vascular remodeling

  • Hidenori Moriyama,
  • Jin Endo,
  • Masaharu Kataoka,
  • Yuta Shimanaka,
  • Nozomu Kono,
  • Yuki Sugiura,
  • Shinichi Goto,
  • Hiroki Kitakata,
  • Takahiro Hiraide,
  • Naohiro Yoshida,
  • Sarasa Isobe,
  • Tsunehisa Yamamoto,
  • Kohsuke Shirakawa,
  • Atsushi Anzai,
  • Yoshinori Katsumata,
  • Makoto Suematsu,
  • Kenjiro Kosaki,
  • Keiichi Fukuda,
  • Hiroyuki Arai,
  • Motoaki Sano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30621-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Pulmonary hypertension is a fatal disease that causes right heart failure due to pulmonary artery stenosis. Here, the authors find that ω-3 epoxides produced by the phospholipase PAF-AH2 in mast cells regulate pulmonary vascular remodeling.