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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-9-5
pubmed:abstractText
Recently endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) has been identified as nitric oxide. The source of the nitric oxide is L-arginine, and the L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway has been proposed to function as a widespread transduction mechanism for the regulation of cell function and communication. Gerald Marks and colleagues suggest that carbon monoxide, which is formed endogenously from heme catabolism and which shares some of the chemical and biological properties of nitric oxide, may play a similar role. This would be achieved by carbon monoxide binding to the iron atom of the heme moiety of soluble guanylyl cyclase and to the iron-sulfur centers of macrophage enzymes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0165-6147
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
185-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Does carbon monoxide have a physiological function?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't