Not exact matches
I. Geographic distribution
of dieldrin, heptachlor, heptachlor
epoxide, chlordane, oxychlordane, and mirex.
The leukotrienes are formed by transformation
of arachidonic acid into an unstable
epoxide intermediate, leukotriene A4, which can be converted enzymatically by hydration to leukotriene B4, and by addition
of glutathione to leukotriene C4.
In the new study, postdoc Stephan C. Hammer, now at the University
of Stuttgart, found that the enzyme actually made 45 % aldehyde directly, without going through an
epoxide intermediate.
Characterization
of a tobacco
epoxide hydrolase gene induced during the resistance response to TMV
Why this dramatic difference between α - tocopherol and tocotrienols in preventing the oxidative formation
of E2
epoxide?