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Aspirin: from a Historical Perspective

2012; Bentham Science Publishers; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2174/157489012799362377

2212-3962

Murat Uğurlucan, İlker Murat Çağlar, Fatma Nihan Turhan Çağlar, Sedat Ziyade, Oğuzhan Karatepe, Yahya Yıldız, Ertuğrul Zencirci, Funda Güngör Uğurlucan, Ahmet Hulisi Arslan, Semra Korkmaz, Uğur Filizcan, Sertaç Çïçek,

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Aspirin is one of the oldest medicines. Due to its wide range usage in different fields of medicine, we aimed to present the history, effects and different uses of aspirin in this review. Furthermore, recent patents of novel pharmaceutical interventions in the field of acetylsalicylic acid, expanding treatment options are presented. Literature search was performed in order to reach data and present information about aspirin from a historical perspective. Since its first use as a pain killer, aspirin has found a broad range of use in general medicine, cardiovascular medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, gastroenterology, oncology with its different effects. Aspirin, a painkilling gift of history to mankind, with a history dating back to BC and various healing effects, promises to be of greater use in different fields of medicine with the light of recent studies, inspiring more research and gaining more popularity.