Aspirin-like drugs - Aspirin Yattakubutsu

Japanese: アスピリン様薬物 - あすぴりんようやくぶつ
Aspirin-like drugs - Aspirin Yattakubutsu

...However, the trust in quinine's antipyretic effect was largely due to its effectiveness as a miracle cure for malaria, a severe febrile disease, and because it has a relatively wide range of side effects, it is no longer used much today for the simple purpose of reducing fever.
[Aspirin-like drugs]
Following the proposal (1971) of the British pharmacologist John R. Vane, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, aspirin and the group of drugs that are considered to have antipyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects through a similar mechanism to aspirin have come to be collectively referred to as aspirin-like drugs. The drugs in this category are extremely diverse in terms of chemical structure, but the prevailing view is that they all exert an essentially common pharmacological action by inhibiting an enzyme called cyclooxygenase and suppressing the biosynthesis of prostaglandins and thromboxanes.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "aspirin-like drugs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかしキニーネの解熱作用に対する信頼感は,多分に激烈な発熱性疾患であるマラリアに対する特効薬的な効果に由来するものであったし,一方では副作用が比較的に多彩な面もあるので,今日では単純な解熱の目的ではあまり使われなくなっている。
[アスピリン様薬物]
 1981年度のノーベル生理・医学賞を受けたイギリスの薬理学者ベインJohn R.Vaneの提唱(1971)に従って,アスピリンおよびアスピリンと同じようなメカニズムにより解熱・鎮痛・抗炎症作用を発揮するとみなされる薬物群をアスピリン様薬物という総称で呼ぶようになってきた。この部類に属する薬物を化学構造からみると実に多彩であるが,これらはすべてシクロオキシゲナーゼという酵素を阻害し,プロスタグランジン・トロンボキサン類の生合成を抑制することにより,本質的に共通の薬理作用を発現するという考えが支配的となっている。…

※「アスピリン様薬物」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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