Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and other eicosanoids : from biogenesis to clinical application /
Polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential for human cell metabolism. As precursors of a very large and extremely versatile family of signaling compounds they play a key role in intracellular communication. Eicosanoids constitute one of the most abundant and prominent subfamilies of these fatty acid...
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Table of Contents:
- Arachidonic acid and companions : an abundant source of biological signals / Friedrich Marks
- The generation of free arachidonic acid / Peter Dieter
- Cyclooxygenases / Karin Müller-Decker
- Prostanoid synthases / Christian Martin and Volker Ullrich
- Lipoxygenases / Hartmut Kühn
- Oxygenation of arachidonic Acid by cytochromes P-450 / Ernst H. Oliw and Johanna Ericsson
- Renal eicosanoids / Margarete Goppelt-Strübe and Joachim Fauler
- The role of eicosanoids in reproduction / H.P. Zahradnik, B. Wetzka and W.R. Schäfer
- The role of eicosanoids in inflammation and allergy / Eva Wikström Jonsson and Sven-Erik Dahlén
- Prostanoids in the cardiovascular system / Lukasz Partyka, Arsineh Arakil Aghajanian and Helmut Sinzinger
- Eicosanoids and cancer / Friedrich Marks and Gerhard Fürstenberger
- Synthetic eicosanoids : development and clinical applications / Bernd Buchmann [and others].