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Mappin

Medical; Medicine

A hallucinogenic serotonin analogue found in frog or toad skins, mushrooms, higher plants, and mammals, especially in the brains, plasma, and urine of schizophrenics. Bufotenin has been used as a ...

Hydroxytryptophan decarboxylase

Medical; Medicine

An enzyme group with broad specificity. The enzymes decarboxylate a range of aromatic amino acids including dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa decarboxylase), tryptophan, and hydroxytryptophan. Listed as ...

Tryptophan decarboxylase

Medical; Medicine

An enzyme group with broad specificity. The enzymes decarboxylate a range of aromatic amino acids including dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa decarboxylase), tryptophan, and hydroxytryptophan. Listed as ...

Leukotriene A4 synthetase

Medical; Medicine

An enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of arachidonic acid to yield 5-hydroperoxyarachidonate (5-HPETE) which is rapidly converted by a peroxidase to 5-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoate (5-HETE). ...

Leukotriene A4 synthase

Medical; Medicine

An enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of arachidonic acid to yield 5-hydroperoxyarachidonate (5-HPETE) which is rapidly converted by a peroxidase to 5-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoate (5-HETE). ...

LTA4 synthase

Medical; Medicine

An enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of arachidonic acid to yield 5-hydroperoxyarachidonate (5-HPETE) which is rapidly converted by a peroxidase to 5-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoate (5-HETE). ...

Arachidonate 5 lipoxygenase activating protein

Medical; Medicine

Scaffolding proteins that play an important role in the localization and activation of 5-lipoxygenase.

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