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A researcher is investigating the relationship between inflammatory mediators. He performs an experiment, investigating the effect of
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on patients with high-grade fever. His research indicates that certain NSAIDs act as
competitively reversible inhibitors of the cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes. It is known that COX catalyzes the formation of prostaglandins
from a certain molecule that itself is derived from the cellular phospholipid bilayer by phospholipase A2. Which of the following
molecules is a precursor of an inflammatory mediators mentioned above?
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