Title : The relatively selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor nimesulide: What's going on?

Pub. Date : 2019 Apr 5

PMID : 30689999






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1 Nimesulide is a relatively selective cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug; it has been discovered in 1971 and firstly commercialized in Italy in 1985. nimesulide mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase II Homo sapiens
2 There is much evidence that the pharmacological profile of nimesulide is peculiar and not shared with the other COX-2 selective inhibitors, suggesting that other molecular mechanisms besides inhibition of COX-2 derived prostaglandins are involved. nimesulide mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase II Homo sapiens