Volume 8, No 4, Dec 1998

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 8 Issue 4, December 1998: 254-258

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Nitric oxide: from a mysterious labile factor to the molecule of the Nobel Prize. Recent progress in nitric oxide research.

Xu WM, Liu LZ.

Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, Rayne Institute, University College London. Correspondence: Xu WM(w.xu@ucl.ac.uk)

NO is now known to be an important messenger molecule in biology. It regulates a variety of functions within cells and tissues including vasodilation, neurotransmission and immunological process. This review will focus on the nitric oxide synthase gene family and recent progress on molecular genetic analysis of NOS1, NOS2 and NOS3 genes.

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