For more than 130 years, doctors have prescribed nitroglycerin for relief of chest pain without a clear knowledge of how it actually worked. Now, not only have researchers from Howard Hughes Medical ...
CHEST discomfort associated with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is frequently quite distressing, and some patients describe this discomfort as pain. 1 During the past several years, we have noted in the ...
Durham, NC - Researchers have traced the breakdown of nitroglycerin into the vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) to an enzymatic process centered in the mitochondria of vascular smooth muscle cells. Their ...