Artemisia plants, arachidonic and other polyunsaturated fatty acids

Arachidonic acid (AA or ARA) is an extremely important fatty acid involved in cell regulation. It is a polyunsaturated fatty acid (20:4n6) covalently bound in esterified form in membrane phospholipids of most body cells. Following irritation or injury, arachidonic acid is released and oxygenated by...

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Autores principales: Munyangi, Jérôme, Lutgen, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dutch Malaria Foundation 2020
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34532222
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description Arachidonic acid (AA or ARA) is an extremely important fatty acid involved in cell regulation. It is a polyunsaturated fatty acid (20:4n6) covalently bound in esterified form in membrane phospholipids of most body cells. Following irritation or injury, arachidonic acid is released and oxygenated by enzyme systems leading to the formation of an important group of inflammatory mediators, to the prostaglandins (PGE₂) by the cyclooxygenase enzyme. This paper describes the positive health effects of arachidonic acid on malaria and other tropical diseases.
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spelling pubmed-84150672021-09-15 Artemisia plants, arachidonic and other polyunsaturated fatty acids Munyangi, Jérôme Lutgen, Pierre Malariaworld J Review Arachidonic acid (AA or ARA) is an extremely important fatty acid involved in cell regulation. It is a polyunsaturated fatty acid (20:4n6) covalently bound in esterified form in membrane phospholipids of most body cells. Following irritation or injury, arachidonic acid is released and oxygenated by enzyme systems leading to the formation of an important group of inflammatory mediators, to the prostaglandins (PGE₂) by the cyclooxygenase enzyme. This paper describes the positive health effects of arachidonic acid on malaria and other tropical diseases. Dutch Malaria Foundation 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8415067/ /pubmed/34532222 Text en Copyright © 2020 Jérôme Munyangi and Pierre Lutgen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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