A member of the class of azobenzenes that is azobenzene in which one of the phenyl groups is substituted at position 4 by an ethoxycarbonyl group, while the other is substituted by a carboxymethyl group at position 3 and a hydroxy group at position 4. It is a potent and selective inhibitor of 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-hydroxy-PGDH).
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
An EC 1.1.1.* (oxidoreductase acting on donor CH-OH group, NAD+ or NADP+ acceptor) inhibitor that interferes with the action of 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (NAD+) (EC 1.1.1.141).
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