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High-fat diet, obesity and prostate disease: the ATX–LPA axis?

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Figure 1: The ATX–LPA axis, high-fat diet, obesity and prostate disease.

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This work was supported in part by a grant from the Safeway/Prostate Cancer Foundation Special Team Amplification of Research (STAR) Program.

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  1. P Kulkarni is an Associate Professor and RH Getzenberg is the Donald S Coffey Professor of Urology and Research Director at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.,

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Kulkarni, P., Getzenberg, R. High-fat diet, obesity and prostate disease: the ATX–LPA axis?. Nat Rev Urol 6, 128–131 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro1311

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