Definitions
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- noun an enzyme that makes prostaglandins that cause inflammation and pain and fever
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Examples
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In the new research, published in the journal, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, patients were taking either a high dose of lumiracoxib, a type of drug known as a cox-2 inhibitor, high dose of ibuprofen or naproxen, which are both non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs known as NSAIDs.
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Aspirin is an inhibitor of a lot of these inflammations, specifically something known as cox-2 (ph), which a lot of these medications target, aspirin does as well.
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It is a natural cox-2 inhibitor, blocks the absorption of estrogen-mimicking chemicals, prevents breast cancer metastasis, and even blocks radiation to varying degrees.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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Sour cherries were recently found in animal studies to reduce pain from inflammation and gout with natural cox-2 inhibitors ten times stronger than aspirin.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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It is a natural cox-2 inhibitor, blocks the absorption of estrogen-mimicking chemicals, prevents breast cancer metastasis, and even blocks radiation to varying degrees.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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Your physician might prescribe Pfizer's Celebrex, which, like Vioxx, is a cox-2 inhibitor.
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Sour cherries were recently found in animal studies to reduce pain from inflammation and gout with natural cox-2 inhibitors ten times stronger than aspirin.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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On August 30, 2006, Health Day News doused Pfizer's last hope of ever finding a reason to justify the over-prescribing of Celebrex when it reported that the "final word on whether the cox-2 painkiller Celebrex might be used to prevent colon cancer is a definite" no, "according to the long-awaited results of two major studies."
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"It appears that not all cox-2 inhibitors are the same with respect totheir effect on heart risk," said Stephen Kimmel, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Penn.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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"It appears that not all cox-2 inhibitors are the same with respect totheir effect on heart risk," said Stephen Kimmel, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Penn.
Medpundit 2004
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