Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, Lipoxins, and PAF

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, Lipoxins, and PAF

Author: J. Martyn Bailey

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1489907270

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Proceedings of the XIth International Washington Spring Symposium at the George Washington University, held in Washington, D.C., May 13-17, 1991


Advances in Prostaglandin, Leukotriene, and other Bioactive Lipid Research

Advances in Prostaglandin, Leukotriene, and other Bioactive Lipid Research

Author: Zeliha Yazici

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1441991948

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This volume, the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Prostaglandin, Leukotriene and Other Bioactive Lipid Research: Basic Science and Clinical Applications, held August 25-29, 2002, in Istanbul, Turkey, discusses advances in bioactive lipid research with special attention to cancer, cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal diseases and respiratory diseases. Specific topics covered include the role of leukotrienes and lipoxins in inflammation, the cytochrome P450 pathway, the genetics and genomics of bioactive lipids, lipid peroxidation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, isoprostanes, receptors and inhibitors, cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways and inhibitors, prostaglandin synthases and receptor signaling, phospholipases and inhibitors.


Advances in Prostaglandin and Leukotriene Research

Advances in Prostaglandin and Leukotriene Research

Author: Bengt Samuelsson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9401597219

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This volume is the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Prostaglandin and Leukotriene Research: Basic Science and New Clinical Applications, held in Florence, Italy, on June 4-8, 2000, which continues the tradition of covering both basic and clinical aspects of prostaglandin and leukotriene research. At this meeting particular emphasis was given to the potential application of the novel COX-2 inhibitors, the genetics of asthma relating to the production of leukotrienes, and novel cellular networks for the production of leukotrienes and lipoxins. Traditionally, as has been done in past meetings of this series, a considerable amount of new material was presented and discussed this year, with particular attention given to the newest clinical data.


Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Other Eicosanoids

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Other Eicosanoids

Author: Friedrich Marks

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-11-21

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 3527613633

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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 derivatives which are formed primarily along oxidative pathways. Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and related eicosanoids have a modulatory function in mammalian cells and are responsible for tissue responses such as inflammation or wound repair. Increasing activity in eicosanoid research sheds new light on today's most common diseases including atherosclerosis, cancer, Alzheimer's, allergies, and rheumatic diseases. The recent advances already have far-reaching implications in medicine. This detailed account, written by leading experts, covers the ground-breaking developments in recent eicosanoid research. The topics span eicosanoid biogenesis, new aspects of their pathophysiology, for example their influence on the cardiovascular system, as well as the clinical application of synthetic eicosanoids and their antagonists. Researchers and students working in biochemistry or in pharmaceutical, physiological, medicinal and neurochemistry will value this informative introduction to one of the most rapidly developing fields in cell biology.


Recent Advances in Prostaglandin, Thromboxane, and Leukotriene Research

Recent Advances in Prostaglandin, Thromboxane, and Leukotriene Research

Author: Helmut Sinzinger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780306457760

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One hundred papers treat advances in research of the effects and uses of prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes in such medical fields as organ transplantation, male erectile dysfunction, amniotic fluid infection and labour, renal function, anti-inflammatory drugs, allergic and aspirin-intolerant asthma, angioplasty and heart ischemia, Alzheimer's disease, vessel wall hyperplasia, and more. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and the Immune Response

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and the Immune Response

Author: John L. Ninnemann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-09-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0521334837

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This study looks at the way the products of arachidonic acid metabolism are active both in normal and abnormal immune responses. While some of the fundamental issues such as whether lymphocytes are capable of producing prostaglandins and leukotrienes are still hotly debated, the evidence is overwhelming that many specific immunological problems and disease states are associated with alterations in the normal balance of arachidonic acid metabolism. This book provides a review of the history and chemistry of the arachidonic acid cascade as well as an exhaustive survey of the literature concerning the interaction of arachidonic acid metabolites with cells of the immune system. The author also presents and discusses the evidence demonstrating prostaglandin and leukotriene participation in response to injury and in malignancy, tissue and organ rejection, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmunity and allergy.


Prostanoids and Drugs

Prostanoids and Drugs

Author: B. Samuelson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1468479385

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This volume, the sixth in the series "The Prostaglandin System" assembles most of the lecture notes from the International School of Pharmacology on "Prostanoids and Drugs" that took place in Erice, Sicily, at the "Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture" on Sept 5-15, 1989. The course, which was a NATO Advanced Study Institute, comprised detailed discussion of basic metabolic pathways of arachidonic acid as well as their location in the everyday practice of clinical medicine. The current status of our knowledge on drugs affecting prostanoid metabolic pathways, and/or their functinal effects, together with the use of prostanoids as drugs, has been reviewed in depth by distinguished experts. In certain instances a few chapters might overlap with others to present divergent viewpoints of authors, for a better assessment of the complexity of eicosanoid biology. It is likely that as our knowledge of prostanoids in different diseases increases, new diseases may also be targets for drugs related to these lipid mediators. We hope that this boo~will encourage basic scientists and clinicians to pursue additional biomedical investigations along these lines of inquiry. Moreover we would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to all the invited speakers not only for their important contributions before and during the course but also for their ability in creating an atmosphere in which all questions were legitimate and all lines of investigations were encouraged.