Aspirin is a common drug for very different purposes: it can be used for co
lds, for headaches, but its giving is even the usual applied therapy either
for the prevention or for the pathologies of thrombosis and infarction bec
ause of the effect induced by the inhibition of thromboxane A(2) synthesis.
It is of relevant interest to characterize the aspirin-induced modificatio
ns in human blood to evaluate the time-dependence effects. Since the therma
l analysis has been successfully applied to biological matrices to evaluate
modifications and pathologies, the application of thermoanalytical techniq
ues to the brood matrix was tempted out and the earliest results are report
ed: by comparing the thermoanalytical profiles of the blood samples of heal
thy subjects before and after aspirin giving, two different pharmacological
responses can been noted and important informations about the long-term ef
fects never reported before are proposed.