Xanthine oxidoreductase catalyses the reduction of nitrates and nitrite to nitric oxide under hypoxic conditions
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- 8 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 427 (2), 225-228
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00430-x
Abstract
Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) catalyses the reduction of the therapeutic organic nitrate, nitroglycerin (glyceryl trinitrate, GTN), as well as inorganic nitrate and nitrite, to nitric oxide (NO) unde...Keywords
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