Biomedical implications of information processing in chemical systems: non-classical approach to photochemistry of coordination compounds.
Analogies between photoactive nitric oxide generators and various electronic devices: logic gates and operational amplifiers are presented. These analogies have important biological consequences: application of control parameters allows for better targeting and control of nitric oxide drugs. The same methodology may be applied in the future for other therapeutic strategies and at the same time helps to understand natural regulatory and signaling processes in biological systems.
Szaciłowski
Konrad
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Center for Inorganic Nanochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 3, 30-60 Kraków, Poland. szacilow@chemia.uj.edu.pl
D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D008128:Logic; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism; D018462:Photobiology; D010777:Photochemistry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D049490:Systems Biology
D009569:Nitric Oxide