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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2010 Jan 14;21(5):294–301. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2009.12.004

Figure 1 of Box 1.

Figure 1 of Box 1

Biosynthesis of prostaglandins (PGs). Arachidonic acid is released from membrane phospholipids by phospholipase A2 enzymes and converted by prostaglanding G/H synthase (PGHS), also called cyclooxygenase (COX), to PGH2 in a two-step reaction. Terminal synthases convert PGH2 into PGs and thromboxane (TXA2).

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