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  2. Aspirin - Wikipedia

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    Aspirin is also used long-term to help prevent further heart attacks, ischaemic strokes, and blood clots in people at high risk. [10] For pain or fever, effects typically begin within 30 minutes. [10] Aspirin works similarly to other NSAIDs but also suppresses the normal functioning of platelets. [10] One common adverse effect is an upset ...

  3. Mechanism of action of aspirin - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, aspirin induces the formation of NO-radicals in the body, which have been shown in mice to have an independent mechanism of reducing inflammation. This reduces leukocyte adhesion, which is an important step in immune response to infection. There is currently insufficient evidence to show that aspirin helps to fight infection. [18]

  4. Lysine acetylsalicylate - Wikipedia

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    Lysine acetylsalicylate, also known as aspirin DL-lysine or lysine aspirin, is a more soluble form of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). As with aspirin itself, it is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) with analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antithrombotic and antipyretic properties. [ 1 ]

  5. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    The main cellular components of the human body [48] [49] [50] Cell type % mass % cell count Erythrocytes (red blood cells) 4.2 85.0 Muscle cells 28.6 0.001 Adipocytes (fat cells) 18.6 0.2 Other cells 14.3 14.8 Extracellular components 34.3 -

  6. History of aspirin - Wikipedia

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    The idea of using aspirin to prevent clotting diseases (such as heart attacks and strokes) was revived in the 1960s, when medical researcher Harvey Weiss found that aspirin had an anti-adhesive effect on blood platelets (and unlike other potential antiplatelet drugs, aspirin had low toxicity).

  7. Salicylic acid - Wikipedia

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    Cotton pads soaked in salicylic acid can be used to chemically exfoliate skin.. Salicylic acid as a medication is commonly used to remove the outermost layer of the skin.As such, it is used to treat warts, psoriasis, acne vulgaris, ringworm, dandruff, and ichthyosis.

  8. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug - Wikipedia

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    In the body, salicin is turned into salicylic acid, which produces the antipyretic and analgesic effects that the plants are known for. Salicin was first isolated by Johann Andreas Buchner in 1827. By 1829, French chemist Henri Leroux had improved the extraction process to obtain about 30g of purified salicin from 1.5 kg of willow bark. [164]

  9. Blood plasma - Wikipedia

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    Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. [1] It is the intravascular part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside cells).