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John Vane

Pharmacology

Global

126 H-Index
1,414 Total Impact

Overview

John Vane is a pharmacology specialist with an H-index of 126 at Royal College of Surgeons (Member). Has been published in Nature New Biology, Nature, New England Journal of Medicine. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.

Biography

Sir John Robert Vane was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".

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Research Impact

5 Publications
0 Total Citations

Published In

FASEB JLancetInt J Clin Pract SupplScience

Key Publications

The discovery of captopril.
FASEB J 2003
Cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors and cardiovascular events.
Lancet 2002
The discovery of captopril: a reply.
FASEB J 2004
The mechanism of action of anti-inflammatory drugs.
Int J Clin Pract Suppl 2003
Biomedicine. Back to an aspirin a day?
Science 2002

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