Travelling through time with aspirin, a healing companion

European Journal of Inflammation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-16

  Tsoucalas, G ^a   Karamanou, Marianna ^a   Androutsos, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acetylsalicylic acid; Aspirin; Cardiovascular system; Hippocrates; Spanish flu; Willow tree

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG USE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; PAIN; REVIEW; TABLET FORMULATION; WILLOW;

EID: 81755182869     PISSN: 1721727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1721727X1100900102     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Rainsford KD. Aspirin and the Salicylates. Butterworths London 1984.
2. Vane JR, Botting RM. Aspirin and other Salicylates. Chapman and Hall Medical Publishers. London 1992.
3. Jones WHS. Hippocrates and the corpus Hippocraticum. G. Cumberlege. Michigan 1945.
4. Aristotelis. De generatione animalum. H.J. Drosaart Lulofs. Oxford 1915.
5. Theophrastus. De causis plantarum with an English translation by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. Heinemann, London 1976.
6. Dioscorides, Pedanius. De materia medica. OlmsWiedmann. Hildesheim 2005.
7. Aetius Amidensis. Iatricorum. Ed. S. Zervos. Teubner. Leipzig 1901.
8. Jeffreys D. Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Bloomsbury. New York 2004.
9. Mann CC, Pulmmer ML. The Aspirin Wars. Knopf. New York 1991; 23-26.
10. Verg E, Plumpe G, Schultheis H. Meilensteine: The official Bayer publication in commemoration of the centenary of aspirin's release 1989.
11. Landau R, Achilladelis B, Scriabine A. Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health. Chemical Heritage Press. Philadelphia, 1999; 408.
12. Smith SA. Br Med J 1900; 1:210.
13. Notes, Short Comments, and Answers to Correspondents. The Lancet 1899; 317-18.
14. Craig C, Stitzel RE. Modern Pharmacology with Clinical Applications. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Baltimore 2004; p. 425.
15. Weiss HJ, Aledort LM. Impaired platelet-connective-tissue reaction in man after aspirin ingestion. Lancet 1967; 7514:495-97.
16. Vane JR. Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs. Nature, New Biology 1971; 231:230-35.
17. Hansson L, Zanchetti A, Carruthers SG et al. Effects of intensive blood-pressure lowering and low-dose aspirin in patients with hypertension: principal results of the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) randomized trial. Lancet 1998; 351:1755-62. (Pubitemid 28269185)
18. Takkouche B, Regueira-Méndez C, García-Closas R, Figueiras A, Gestal-Otero JJ. Intake of Vitamin C and Zinc and Risk of Common Cold: A Cohort Study. Epidemiology 2002; 1:38-44. (Pubitemid 34031508)