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  • noun biochemistry Any of group of compounds, related to prostaglandins, that regulate inflammation

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Examples

  • Machado FS, Johndrow JE, Esper L, Dias A, Bafica A, et al. (2006) Anti-inflammatory actions of lipoxin A4 and aspirin-triggered lipoxin are SOCS-2 dependent.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Malgorzata Romanowska et al. 2010

  • Corey has with enormous skill carried out structural determination and total syntheses of a large number of compounds of many different types of eicosanoids such as prostaglandins and leucotrienes such as lipoxin A (3).

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • Corey has with enormous skill carried out structural determination and total syntheses of a large number of compounds of many different types of eicosanoids such as prostaglandins and leucotrienes such as lipoxin A (3).

    Sandwalk 2009

  • a large number of compounds of many different types of eicosanoids such as prostaglandins and leucotrienes such as lipoxin A (3).

    Press Release: The 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990

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