What's the difference between nitric and vitric?

Nitric


Definition:

  • (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.

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  • (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.

Vitric


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.

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