date:May 17, 2012
The US-based scientists mapped the cellular processes that power the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids by studying living mouse cells finding that the beneficial fatty acids block an enzyme known as cyclooxygenase (COX), which produces the prostaglandin hormones that spark inflammation.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Edward Dennis and his colleagues from the University of California, San Diego, said their findings also suggest it could be possibl