(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) EDRF is even more labile than prostacyclin, with a half-life of about 6 seconds, and it has recently been identified as nitric oxide.
(2) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(3) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(4) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(5) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(6) The distribution of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) immunoreactivity was investigated in the guinea-pig small intestine.
(7) Carbon monoxide accelerates the reaction as measured by nitric oxide oxidation or ozone formation.
(8) Considerable evidence has recently been presented that suggests that nitric oxide (NO) is a nonadrenergic noncholinergic (NANC) neurotransmitter in gastrointestinal tissues.
(9) The results indicate that cytokines induce a nitric oxide-synthase of the macrophage-type in vascular smooth muscle.
(10) For comparison we investigated several structural analogues with respect to their nitric oxide or nitrite ion releasing potency.
(11) To investigate this discrepancy we studied the role of nitric oxide (NO) in DCFH oxidation.
(12) Endogenous nitric oxide thus selectively modulates peptidergic neurotransmission in the gut.
(13) Nitroglycerin (glyceryl trinitrate) is a substance that is metabolized to nitric oxide in the cell.
(14) The role of the endothelium-derived vasodilator, nitric oxide, as a mediator of the increase in gastric mucosal blood flow and as a modulator of the acid secretory response induced by pentagastrin was investigated in the anesthetised rat.
(15) Endothelium-derived relaxing factor has been tentatively identified as nitric oxide (NO) partially on the basis of chemical assays.
(16) Nitric acid and elastase were injected into the tracheae of Wistar white rats and the effect of bronchiolitis on the pathogenesis of experimental emphysema and cor pulmonale was studied.
(17) The effectiveness of L-NMMA in blocking NANC relaxation-in the rat anococcygeus but not the BRP and bovine penile artery suggests a species difference in the neuronal nitric oxide synthase.
(18) Thus, inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis leads to long-lasting, but reversible, hypertension.
(19) The constrictor response to L-NNA and the blockade of the ACh-induced relaxation by both L-NNA and removal of endothelium are consistent with an involvement of nitric oxide.
(20) Nitric oxide synthase has now been purified and molecularly cloned from brain.