Bioassay discrimination between nitric oxide (NO) and nitroxyl (NO-) using L-cysteine
Nitroxyl (NO-) is the one-electron reduction product of nitric oxide (NO.). Recently, NO- generating compounds were shown to possess potent vasorelaxant activity and this was attributed to the ready conversion of NO- to NO.. Because of its metastable character, direct chemical detection of NO- or it...
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1994-05-30.
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