Inflammation and aspirin

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First-century Rome, Cornelius Celsus first described inflammation as consisting of pain, heat, redness and swelling. Then, in nineteenth century, German physician Rudolf Virchow suggested the link between inflammation and various chronic diseases(1). Inflammation can be divide into acute inflammation and chronic inflammation. Acute inflammation is a type of immune response whereas chronic inflammation leads to serious illness. Non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) such as aspirin is used to treat inflammation, but meanwhile bring devastating side effect.
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, inflammation is a fundamental pathologic process that consists of a dynamic complex of histologically apparent cytologic changes, cellular infiltration, and mediator release that occurs in the affected blood vessels and adjacent tissues(2). Inflammation responses to foreign substances such as bacteria or in some instances to internally produced substances (3). It is part of the body’s immune response.
Acute inflammation has rapid onset and quickly becomes severe in hours and days. This involves three processes. Firstly, there is an increase blood flow due to dilation of arterioles supplying in that injured region, which causes that region to become red. Secondly, there is an increased permeability of the capillaries which allowing additional fluid and blood proteins to pass into interstitial spaces. This resulted in edema (swollen).Finally, neutrophil and some macrophages migrate from blood vessels into the tissues. Neutrophils bind to the endothelium of blood vessels due to cell adhesion molecule (CAMs) found on the surface of neutrophils and endothelial cells in injured tissue. Sometimes, this resulted in formation of pus (4...

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