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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. [11] For pain or fever, effects typically begin within 30 minutes. [11] Aspirin works similarly to other NSAIDs but also suppresses the normal functioning of platelets. [11] 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. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sensory nervous system ...

  5. Daily low-dose aspirin has its benefits — and risks. Here's ...

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    Aspirin helps prevent blood clots from forming, which is the leading cause of heart attack and stroke, but the drug also carries a risk of bleeding. That risk can outweigh aspirin’s benefits in ...

  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. Daily aspirin use among older adults remains prevalent ...

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    A recent survey found that while the number of adults using aspirin to prevent heart disease has decreased, about one-third of adults ages 60 and older without heart disease were still taking ...

  8. Drug delivery to the brain - Wikipedia

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    Drug delivery to the brain is the process of passing therapeutically active molecules across the blood–brain barrier into the brain.This is a complex process that must take into account the complex anatomy of the brain as well as the restrictions imposed by the special junctions of the blood–brain barrier.

  9. Salicylate poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Salicylate poisoning, also known as aspirin poisoning, is the acute or chronic poisoning with a salicylate such as aspirin. [1] The classic symptoms are ringing in the ears , nausea , abdominal pain , and a fast breathing rate . [ 1 ]