Cyclooxygenase 1 (COX-1), also known as prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 1 (HUGOPTGS1), is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PTGS1gene.[5][6] In humans it is one of two cyclooxygenases.
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