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Copyright © 2000, European Society of Cardiology
Nitric oxide synthesised from L-arginine mediates endothelium dependent dilatation in human veins in vivo
Director, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, University College London Medical School, Fourth Floor, St Martin's House, 140 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9LN, UK
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KEYWORDS Endothelial factors; Endothelial function; Nitric oxide; Shock; Veins
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I am delighted that this particular paper has been so highly cited as I always assumed that it had been rather overshadowed by its sibling paper that we published in The Lancet [1]. In 1987 I started work with Joe Collier trying to determine whether endothelium-dependent relaxation occurred in human vessels in vivo. We worked