icosanoids

Synonym: eicosanoids
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Unsaturated C20 @F02330@ and skeletally related compounds. The spelling icosanoids is preferred over the spelling eicosanoids for @C01279@ with icosanoic acid. Specialists working in this field commonly use eicosanoids, however.
See:
leukotrienes
,
prostanoids
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307. (Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 1342 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'icosanoids' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.I02932 RIS BibTex EndNote
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