Total synthesis and bioactivity of resolvin E2

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3602-3605

  Ogawa, Seiji ^a   Urabe, Daisuke ^a   Yokokura, Yoshiyuki ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^a   Arita, Makoto ^a   Inoue, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CYTOKINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; RESOLVIN E2; ZYMOSAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PERITONITIS; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; MICE; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; PERITONITIS; STEREOISOMERISM; ZYMOSAN;

EID: 68949122370     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol901350g     Document Type: Article

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