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  • noun biochemistry Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids

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Examples

  • • “Green,” cucumber/melon, and mushroom aromas, produced from unsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes when tissue damage mixes an oxidizing enzyme lipoxygenase with unsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • • “Green,” cucumber/melon, and mushroom aromas, produced from unsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes when tissue damage mixes an oxidizing enzyme lipoxygenase with unsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Beans owe their typical beany flavor to a large endowment of the enzyme lipoxygenase, which breaks unsaturated fatty acids into small, odorous molecules.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Beans owe their typical beany flavor to a large endowment of the enzyme lipoxygenase, which breaks unsaturated fatty acids into small, odorous molecules.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The jasmonate biosynthesis related gene lipoxygenase

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Fengxia Liu et al. 2010

  • The octadecanoid pathway along with the lipoxygenase pathway is responsible for the production of oxylipins that are important for plant defense

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

  • Cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX) which convert fatty acids to prostaglandins and leukotrienes, play important roles in pregnancy and foetal development.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Demba Sarr 2010

  • Quercetin was the most potent and it inhibited the lipoxygenase in the liposomal suspension by about 42% while the other flavonoids inhibited the enzyme by about

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010

  • I learned that it is protective against cancers owing to its anti-inflammatory property of inhibiting cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase enzymes in the promotion of inflammatory prostaglandins, leading potentially to cancers.

    Brudirect News1 2010

  • It was previously shown that lipoxygenase (LO) pathways are important in the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) inflammatory process and that synovial fluid from RA patients contains high amounts of leukotrienes.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Karina Roxana Gheorghe 2009

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