Nitric oxide/carbon monoxide. A molecular switch for myocardial preservation during ischemia. - Concepedia

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Nitric oxide/carbon monoxide. A molecular switch for myocardial preservation during ischemia.

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1996

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Nilanjana Maulik, Daniel T. Engelman, Mirian Watanabe, Richard M. Engelman, J. A. Rousou, Joseph E. Flack, David W. Deaton, Nikolai V. Gorbunov, Nesren Elsayed, Valerian E. Kagan,

Abstract

The results suggest that NO contributes to myocardial preservation by both cGMP-dependent and cGMP-independent mechanisms, the former being modulated by CO signaling and the latter by virtue of its antioxidant action.