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Nitric Oxide News

Research reviews, discoveries, and perspectives on nitric oxide and human health.

An older person holding a wooden crate of freshly harvested vegetables — leafy greens, beans, carrots, beetroot and root vegetables

Nitric Oxide News

The Nitrate-Nitrite-Nitric Oxide Pathway on Healthy Ageing: A Review of Pre-clinical and Clinical Data on the Impact of Dietary Nitrate in the Elderly

A research review on how dietary nitrate — from leafy greens and root vegetables — supports the body’s nitric oxide production and healthy ageing.

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Anatomical visualization of glowing red vascular and nerve networks running through the chest, shoulder and arm

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Physical exercise associated with NO production: signaling pathways and significance in health and disease

Physical activity markedly stimulates the production of NO, which then increases blood flow to the working skeletal muscle cells. In addition, the same NO protects your cardiovascular system against disease.

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Portraits of the three 1998 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine — Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad and Robert F. Furchgott

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Nitric oxide is not just blowing in the wind

This section provides a snapshot of the progress that has been made in the field of NO research during the past 20 years, since the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of NO.

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