Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , January 2012

Radiation resistance, invasiveness and metastasis are inflammatory events that could be suppressed by lipoxin A4

  • Undurti N. Das

      Affiliations

    • UND Life Sciences, 13800 Fairhill Road, #321, Shaker Heights, OH 44120, USA
    • School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada 533003, India
    • Bio-Science Research Centre, GVP College of Engineering Campus, Visakhapatnam 530048, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: UND Life Sciences, 13800 Fairhill Road, #321, Shaker Heights, OH 44120, USA. Tel.: +1 216 231 5548; fax: +1 928 833 0316.

Received 27 September 2011 ,Accepted 30 September 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.plefa.2011.09.008

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , January 2012