The emerging biology of the nitrite anion.
Nitrite has now been proposed to play an important physiological role in signaling, blood flow regulation and hypoxic nitric oxide homeostasis. A recent two-day symposium at the US National Institutes of Health highlighted recent advances in the understanding of nitrite biochemistry, physiology and therapeutics.
Gladwin
Mark T
MT
Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. mgladwin@nih.gov
Schechter
Alan N
AN
Kim-Shapiro
Daniel B
DB
Patel
Rakesh P
RP
Hogg
Neil
N
Shiva
Sruti
S
Cannon
Richard O
RO
Kelm
Malte
M
Wink
David A
DA
Espey
Michael Graham
MG
Oldfield
Edward H
EH
Pluta
Ryszard M
RM
Freeman
Bruce A
BA
Lancaster
Jack R
JR
Feelisch
Martin
M
Lundberg
Jon O
JO
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