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Nitric oxide in immunity and inflammation

John W. Coleman
- 01 Aug 2001 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 8, pp 1397-1406
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Several key enzymes in mitochondrial respiration are inhibited by RNOS and this leads to a depletion of ATP and cellular energy, which may explain the multiple actions of NO in the regulation of immune and inflammatory cells.
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This article is published in International Immunopharmacology.The article was published on 2001-08-01. It has received 774 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Immune system & Nitric oxide synthase.

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Nitric oxide synthases: Roles, tolls, and controls

TL;DR: The next ten years will bring forth evidence that NO is produced in slime molds, locusts, beetles, horseshoe crabs, mollusks, chickens, mice, rats, cows, and humans, and its physiologic roles will be at least as protean as those discovered for corticosteroids in the 194Os- 1980s.
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Macrophage cytotoxicity: role for L-arginine deiminase and imino nitrogen oxidation to nitrite.

TL;DR: An L-arginine-dependent biochemical pathway synthesizing L-citrulline and nitrite, coupled to an effector mechanism, is shown to cause this pattern of metabolic inhibition in cytotoxic activated macrophages.
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Increased nitric oxide in exhaled air of asthmatic patients

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the NO in patients with asthma using a slow vital capacity manoeuvre and an adapted chemiluminescence analyser and found that NO was detectable in exhaled air of 67 control subjects (mean peak concentration 80·2 [SE4·1] ppb) and was significantly reduced by inhaling the specific NO synthase inhibitor N G -monomethyl-Larginine.
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What is nitric oxide enzymes in immune?

The paper mentions that the principal enzyme involved in the synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) in immune cells is the inducible type-2 isoform of nitric oxide synthase (NOS-2).