Talk:Lipoxin

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I'm removing the redirect (from Lipoxin to Eicosanoid) because Lipoxins are sometimes considered to be a subclass of eicosanoid, but they're different. And I have a Lipoxin stub ready. And the Eicosanoid page doesn't even mention lipoxins. David.Throop 06:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


How are lipoxins different from other eicosanoids? They are very similar to leukotriene B4, diHETEs (in general) and resolvin E1, for example. GregKeyes 01:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

As it says on the eicosanoid page "Current usage limits this (the term 'eicosanoid') to the leukotrienes and prostanoids, but several other classes are technically eicosanoid, including the resolvins, isofurans, isoprostanes, lipoxins, epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), neuroprotectin D and some endocannabinoids."
All these classes were discovered later than the thromboxanes and prostanoids. I can't explain why they aren't included in the eicosanoids. Some writers do include some of them with the eicosanoids. I'll just note that most of the current literature on them uses such terms as eicosanoid-like. David.Throop 13:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
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