Enhancement of PGI2 formation by a new vasodilator, 2-nicotinamidoethyl nitrate in the coupled system of platelets and aortic microsomes

An enzyme isolated from arteries transforms prostaglandin endoperoxides to an unstable substance that inhibits platelet aggregation

Salvador Moncada, Ryszard J. Gryglewski, S Bunting et al. · Nature · 1976 · 3.6K citations

Medicine, Biochemistry, Pharmacology +16

Arterial walls are protected against deposition of platelet thrombi by a substance (prostaglandin X) which they make from prostaglandin endoperoxides

Ryszard J. Gryglewski, Stuart Bunting, Salvador Moncada et al. · Prostaglandins · 1976 · 1K citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Hematology +13

Arterial walls generate from prostaglandin endoperoxides a substance (prostaglandin X) which relaxes strips of mesenteric and coeliac arteries and inhibits platelet aggregation

Stuart Bunting, Salvador Moncada, John R. Vane et al. · Prostaglandins · 1976 · 955 citations

Medicine, Physiology, Signal Transduction +11

A lipid peroxide inhibits the enzyme in blood vessel microsomes that generates from prostaglandin endoperoxides the substance (prostaglandin X) which prevents platelet aggregation

Salvador Moncada, Ryszard J. Gryglewski, Stuart Bunting et al. · Prostaglandins · 1976 · 605 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Physiology +16

Prostacyclin is a circulating hormone

Salvador Moncada, Ryszard Korbut, Stuart Bunting et al. · Nature · 1978 · 379 citations

Life Sciences, Endocrinology, Hormone Biochemistry +2