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What does EPHX stand for?

Epoxide Hydrolase


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Samples in periodicals archive:
As an enzyme target, Arete uses soluble epoxide hydrolase, believed to play a role in a third pathway of arachidonic acid metabolism: epoxygenases.
Earlier research had suggested that a troublesome enzyme, called soluble epoxide hydrolase, degrades natural inflammation inhibitors known as epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs).
In terms of detoxification systems, Table 1 shows that epoxide hydrolase is active at birth but apparently only at 50% of adult function.
In this pathway, the concerted actions of CYPs and epoxide hydrolases initially convert PAH to their corresponding trans-dihydrodiol metabolites.
Christopher Smith of Southampton General Hospital in southern England and David Harrison of the University of Edinburgh found a mutation on the gene for microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEPHX), an enzyme that detoxifies chemicals in lung and liver tissue.
As an enzyme target, Arete uses soluble epoxide hydrolase, believed to play a role in a third pathway of arachidonic acid metabolism: epoxygenases.
The K55R polymorphism is a naturally-occurring, inherited variation of EPHX2 - the epoxide hydrolase gene.
Substituted ureas and carbamates are mechanistic inhibitors of the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH).

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