Talk:Cyclooxygenase-3

Articles relating to this topic

Found various articles on the net relating to this topic and listed them in the reference.sarindam7 (talk) 21:34, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

merge with PTGS1

This article is linked to the same NCBI gene id as PTGS1 [1] and 'COX3' is listed as another identifier for PTGS1. It really seems like this is the same thing and should be in one article. It would be useful to mention why there are multiple numbered COX 'genes' in the article.. Benjamin Good (talk) 21:31, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

The gene is spliced differently resulting in a different enzyme, at least that was the original claim. By now this is a historical episode and if research does not pick up we might reduce it to the historical narration. Right now I would wait and see what develops, if anything. Richiez (talk) 23:46, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

role in headache relief?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin says: "A third form of COX, termed COX-3 is thought to exist in the brain and may be associated with relief of Headaches when on NSAID therapy." The information on this page doesn't seem to be consistent with or contain that statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.114.164.133 (talk) 01:34, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

This was one thought but isn't true judging from what we know about COX-3 today. I removed the sentence from Prostaglandin. Thanks for catching this mistake! --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 07:39, 18 October 2011 (UTC)