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| Cholesterol is an essential component of biological membranes |
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| Cholesterol serves as a precursor to neurotransmitters and hemoglobin |
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| Because cholesterol is insoluble in plasma it must be transported within a complex of lipoprotein |
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| Cholesterol attached to HDLs can build up in vessels to cause atherosclerosis |
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| Taken orally testosterone passes through the liver unmetabolized and elicits the same effects as testosterone synthesized naturally in the body |
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| Risks involved with taking anabolic steroids include the following: heightened aggressiveness sterility impotence and risk of premature death from complications of diabetes coronary artery disease and liver cancer. |
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| Synthetic progesterone-mimicking steroids can be taken to increase ovulation. |
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| Glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid hormones are both synthesized in the adrenal cortex. |
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| Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes belong to the family of 20 carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids called Prostacyclins. |
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| Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) inhibit the action of cyclooxygenase which is crucial to prostaglandin synthesis. |
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| The simple addition of a methyl group to the 15th carbon of PGF2? increases the potency of synthetic prostaglandins by 10 to 20 time that of the unmethylated structure. |
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| Prostaglandins are named so because are synthesized in the prostate gland. |
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| Leukotrienes are found primarily in circulating erythrocytes in the blood stream. |
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| Cysteine glycine and L-glutamic acid are the three amino acids typical to Luekotrinocytes. |
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| Aspirin acts as to induce coagulation by inhibiting the enzyme responsible for Thromboxane At synthesis. |
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| Cholesterol is an ?/? unsaturated alcohol |
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| Arachidonic acid is stored as a methyl ester. |
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| Aspirin deactivates cyclooxygenase by |
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| Cyclooxygenase has an active carboxy group |
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| double bond O, 3 groups, Chlorine |
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| no double bonds, 2 groups, |
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