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Prostaglandins and Aspirin

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This article has the same title as one published in Nature about fourteen months ago1. Its purpose is to reexamine a thesis put forward then, and to mention some of the recent developments.

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PICKLES, V. Prostaglandins and Aspirin. Nature 239, 33–34 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239033a0

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