Oxylipins in animals, referred to as eicosanoids ( Greek icosa; twenty ) because of their formation from twenty-carbon essential fatty acids, have potent and often opposing effects on e . g . smooth muscle ( vasculature, myometrium ) and blood platelets.
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K Ca 2.3 is most abundant in regions of the brain, but has also been found to be expressed in significant levels in many other peripheral tissues, particularly those rich in smooth muscle, including the rectum, colon, small intestine and myometrium.
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Every once in a while, though, a lump that looks on an ultrasound like a fibroid turns out to be adenomyosis, a more complex sort of benign condition in which glandular tissue from the innermost layer of the uterus inappropriately penetrates the myometrium, creating a tumorlike growth.
