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Ben Avi Weissman
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Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel
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Nahum Allon
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Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel
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Shlomo Shapira
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Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Nitric Oxide and the Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems
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- Dennis B. McNamara, Harmeet Aurora, Brenda Bedi, Thomas Osgood, Raphael Santiago, I-L. Chen et al.
Pages 175-180
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- Yaakov Ashkenazy, Valentin Witzling, Yitchak Abend, Sandra Moshonov, Uriel Zor
Pages 181-188
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Nitric Oxide and Brain Functions
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- Turgay Dalkara, Michael A. Moskowitz
Pages 189-194
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- Sigal Meilin, Nili Zarchin, Avraham Mayevsky, Shlomo Shapira
Pages 195-204
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- J. Chen, H. Wang, Y. Ying, L. Juarez, L. Binder, H. Ghanbari et al.
Pages 205-212
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- Gerald Wolf, Werner Schmidt, Jaroslaw Calka, Gabriele Henschke, Sabine Würdig
Pages 213-220
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- Shlomo Shapira, Shira Chapman, Tamar Kadar, Ben Avi Weissman, Eli Heldman
Pages 221-230
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- Rachel Brandeis, Michal Sapir, Eti Stein, Ben Avi Weissman
Pages 231-238
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- Shira Chapman, Ettie Grauer, Tamar Kadar
Pages 239-244
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Back Matter
Pages 245-248
About this book
A decade ago, for most scientists investigating various issues in life sciences the word "NO" was used in a negative context. It is astounding to observe how recently researchers are addressing the issue of NO, namely, nitric oxide, in over fifty publications weekly. Science journal, while naming nitric oxide: "Molecule of the Year" (December 1992), said it all: "NO news is good news. " For a long period of time NO was considered as a pollutant and every ecology minded person tried to eliminate it. It was the discovery of NO involvement in the process of host killing by macrophages and several years later the finding that EDRF is none else but NO, that promoted this field. Nitric oxide's major role in the control of blood pressure is merely one factor of an extensive list of effects and functions attributed to it. NO is implicated in long-term potentiation (LPT), a principal process involved in memory consolidation and it is considered as the main biochemical substance responsible for penile erection. It should be noted that additional roles for NO are discovered continuously as many laboratories join the quest for the mystery of this small molecule. The observation that NO is involved in various biological processes is not unique, as other second messengers (i. e. , cyclic AMP), participate in a diverse set of functions.