Lipoxygenases in Inflammation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Steinhilber, Dieter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Enzymology.; Lipids.; Biomedicine.; Lipidology.; Human Physiology.

Oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids by lipoxygenases leads to a variety of fatty acid metabolites which play important roles in physiology but also in pathophysiology. Data accumulated during the last decade point to the fact that lipoxygenase metabolites are involved in host defence reactions,...