Carbon monoxide can be good for you
The poisonous gas CO may serve as a novel inhalation therapy able to reduce the consequences of acute lung injury.
May 3, 2001
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
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The study suggests that CO activates soluble guanylate cyclase thereby suppressing hypoxic induction of the...