Leukotriene C4
"Leukotriene C4" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The conjugation product of LEUKOTRIENE A4 and glutathione. It is the major arachidonic acid metabolite in macrophages and human mast cells as well as in antigen-sensitized lung tissue. It stimulates mucus secretion in the lung, and produces contractions of nonvascular and some VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE. (From Dictionary of Prostaglandins and Related Compounds, 1990)
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D017997
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D10.251.355.255.100.450.855.455 D10.251.355.310.166.887.855.455 D23.469.050.175.450.725.400
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