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Carbon monoxide can be good for you
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010504-02
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Carbon monoxide (CO) can arrest cellular respiration, but paradoxically is also synthesized endogenously by heme oxygenase type 1 (Ho-1) in response to conditions of low oxygen. In the May Nature Medicine Tomoyuki Fujita and colleagues at Columbia University, New York suggest a therapeutic potential for CO, reporting that mice lacking the gene for Ho-1 exposed to ischemic stress can recover by inhaling CO.
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