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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Immunol. 2014 May 9;153(1):228–240. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2014.04.018

Figure 2. Representative diagram of lipid metabolism.

Figure 2

This basic schematic demonstrates the cleavage of a fatty acyl chain from PC by PLA2 resulting in a lysoPC and free fatty acid, in this case AA. Free AA can then be metabolized by Cox and Lox enzymes to form eicosanoids.