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Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs.

VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004) Wikipedia

Nature New Biology, 231, 231-235. 1971.

In 1982 Vane shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances."

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