Title : [Treatment of chronic virus hepatitis with acetylsalicylic acid].

Pub. Date : 1995 Apr 15

PMID : 7740291






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1 Arachidonic acid (AA) activation from membrane phospholipid pools is common to many receptors and can be followed by metabolization of AA by cyclooxygenase to prostanoids, thromboxanes and eicosanoids and by lipoxygenase to leukotrienes; inhibition of these AA oxidation pathways by addition of inhibitors of these enzymes (e.g. indomethacin) resulted in marked amplification of the IFN signal, possibly by using the epoxygenase enzyme family as an alternative pathway. Arachidonic Acid interferon alpha 1 Homo sapiens