Yin-Yang: Balancing act of prostaglandins with opposing functions to regulate inflammation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6271-6273

  Mandal, Asim K ^a,b   Zhang, Zhongian ^a   Kim, Sung Jo ^a   Tsai, Pei Chih ^a   Mukherjee, Anil B ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 27744548905     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.10.6271     Document Type: Article

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