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Nitric oxide for the prevention and treatment of viral, bacterial, protozoal and fungal infections
2021-10-22
Abstract excerpt
Although the antimicrobial potential of nitric oxide (NO) is widely published, it is little used clinically. NO is a key signalling molecule modulating vascular, neuronal, inflammatory and immune responses. Endogenous antimicrobial activity is largely mediated by high local NO concentrations produced by cellular inducible nitric oxide synthase, and by derivative reactive nitrogen oxide species including peroxynitr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ac35b0e6-dbde-57b0-bffe-343f428025d3
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.51270.2
