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Preferred term

Oxylipins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Oxylipin

Scope note

  • Eighteen-carbon cyclopentyl polyunsaturated fatty acids derived from ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID via an oxidative pathway analogous to the EICOSANOIDS in animals. Biosynthesis is inhibited by SALICYLATES. A key member, jasmonic acid of PLANTS, plays a similar role to ARACHIDONIC ACID in animals.

History note

  • 2008

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054883

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