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Nitric Oxide Signaling and Clinical Alternatives to Nitric OxideDepartment of Anesthesiology and Surgical-Trauma ICU Co-Director, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Nitric oxide has been implicated in numerous biological processes, particularly those involved with the cardiovascular system. Nitric oxide production is closely regulated and influenced by a number of factors in both health and disease. Nitric oxide is involved in maintaining the vascular system in its healthy, nondiseased state by producing vasorelaxation which enhances blood flow and prevents both leukocyte and platelet adhesion to the vascular wall. Dysfunctional endothelial cell nitric oxide production has been implicated in a number of disease states, including hypertension and atherosclerosis, and has been associated with adverse cardiac events. Various recent therapies may exert their beneficial effects in part by enhancing endothelial nitric oxide bloavallability. Nitric oxide has been used therapeutically in a number of cardiorespiratory disease states. An improved understanding of the pathologic processes underlying these diseases has resulted in several alternative agents being investigated and used clinically.
Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Vol. 7, No. 3,
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