Word: mucus
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Some prostaglandins promote inflammation, fever and pain by sensitizing nerves to other chemicals released from injured cells. Aspirin's most familiar benefits come from interfering with these noisome processes. However, prostaglandins are also responsible for stimulating the production of the stomach's protective lining of mucus, which explains why too much aspirin can cause gastric distress and bleeding. Aspirin's ability to prevent strokes and heart attacks stems from its disruption of a prostaglandin that promotes blood clotting. As for colon-cancer prevention, it is possible that aspirin inhibits substances that play a role in cell proliferation. At least...
...virus spreads easily, traveling in droplets spewed into the air by sneezing and coughing or through contact with mucus on hands or objects. Transmission is faster in places with poor ventilation, such as rooms with closed windows, crowded classrooms, nursing homes and public transportation systems. On planes, where the air is continuously recirculated, just one flu- ridden passenger can infect all the rest...