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Abstract
Cysteinyl leukotrienes are established mediators of bronchial asthma and have agonist roles analogous to those of histamine in allergic rhinitis. We now know that the substance originally termed slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis was composed of three cysteinyl leukotrienes that act in the inflammatory response via receptors on smooth muscle and on bone marrow-derived inflammatory cells. K. Frank Austen describes the work culminating in the identification, biosynthesis and functional characterization of these moieties.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18204420 DOI: 10.1038/ni0208-113
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Immunol ISSN: 1529-2908 Impact factor: 25.606