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US
/pɹoʊstæˈɡɫændɪn/
]
NOUN
- a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity
How To Use prostaglandin In A Sentence
- Prostaglandin E_2 (PGE_2) level in plasma of the patients with epidemic hemorrhagic fever(EHF)was determined with radioimmunoassay.
- They have important effects on blood pressure, blood clotting, pain sensation, and reproduction mechanisms, but one prostaglandin may have different and even opposite effects in different tissues.
- Since the mid-1980s, thousands of men have found relief from the condition by injecting themselves with one of three drugs: papavarine, prostaglandin E1 and phentolamine. What Causes Impotence?
- Prostaglandins are well recognised as protecting the gastric mucosa and enhancing the perception of pain.
- In this regard, increased plasma renin activity and decreased renal prostaglandin production have been reported in patients with acute liver failure.
- This enzyme is responsible for your body's production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances involved in inflammation and pain.
- The use of antiprostaglandins or NSAIDS should begin on the first day of the menstrual cycle and continue to the third day of menses.
- NSAIDs may reduce pain and inflammation following injury by inhibiting COX isozyme-induced prostaglandin synthesis; however, as they circulate within the body indiscriminately, rather than localizing to the source of an athlete's specific aches and pains, they may produce undesirable side effects. Health News from Medical News Today
- In addition to chemokines, lipid metabolites such as leukotrienes and prostaglandins are emerging as important upstream controllers of DC migration toward LNs.
- In contrast to the prostaglandins as well as thromboxanes and prostacyclin the leukotrienes do primarily not act as defense hormones. Physiology or Medicine 1982 - Press Release
