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Beneficial Effects of Bempedoic Acid Treatment in Polycystic Kidney Disease Cells and Mice
2022-08-11
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> ADPKD has few therapeutic options. Tolvaptan slows disease but has side effects limiting its tolerability. Bempedoic acid (BA), an ATP citrate-lyase (ACLY) inhibitor FDA-approved for hypercholesterolemia, catalyzes a key step in fatty acid/sterol synthesis important for cell proliferation. BA is activated by very long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase (FATP2) expressed primarily in kidney and liver. BA...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d26c0f6b-b454-5f4a-bd31-f8f2ff3f39cd
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.08.09.503392
