Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume 249, Issue 3, 28 August 1998, Pages 767-772
Regular ArticleGeneration of Nitric Oxide by a Nitrite Reductase Activity of Xanthine Oxidase: A Potential Pathway for Nitric Oxide Formation in the Absence of Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity☆
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This work was supported in part by an Arthritis Research Campaign (UK) program grant. A preliminary report of this work was presented to the World Congress, Oxygen Club of California, in Santa Barbara, California, February 1998.
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To whom correspondence should be addressed: MRC Collaborative Center, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AD, UK. Fax: 44 181 906 1359. E-mail:[email protected].
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Present address: School of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
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