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Isoprostanes

"Isoprostanes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A series of prostaglandin-like compounds that are produced by the attack of free-radical species on unsaturated fatty acids, especially ARACHIDONIC ACID, of cellular MEMBRANES. Once cleaved from the lipid membrane by the action of phospholipases they can circulate into various bodily fluids and eventually be excreted. Although these compounds resemble enzymatically synthesized prostaglandins their stereoisometric arrangement is usually different than the "naturally occurring" compounds.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Isoprostanes" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Isoprostanes" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2005
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