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NSAIDs: Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

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NSAIDs: Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

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NSAIDs are a class of drugs that relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and lower fever by inhibiting cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes and thereby prostaglandin synthesis. This chapter covers their classification, mechanism of a…

  • NSAIDs are drugs that reduce pain, inflammation, and fever by inhibiting cyclo-oxygenase (COX).
  • The shared mechanism of NSAIDs is inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis from arachidonic acid.
  • Phospholipase A₂ releases arachidonic acid from membrane phospholipids after cell injury.

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