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No. Prostaglandins form a group of biologically active lipids that are derived, in humans, from arachidonic acid (5,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid), a C20 polyunsaturated fatty acid that has four nonconjugated double bonds; and that are named by reference to a hypothetical compound, called prostanoic acid.

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