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Article: New Test for Presence of Nitric Oxide Could Improve Medical Knowledge.
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- Blood Weekly
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- July 13, 2000
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2000 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com) --
Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States have developed a means to detect nitric oxide that could help improve scientists' understanding of this molecule's role in neurological signaling and other biological functions.
Stephen Lippard, Katherine J. Franz, and Nisha Singh of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology synthesized a nitric oxide sensing system that consists of a molecule whose fluorescence switches on when nitric oxide is present. They reported their findings in the June 16 international edition of the German publication Angewande Chemie.
Nitric oxide plays a ...