Copyright © 2005, European Society of Cardiology
Coronary circulation: Nitric oxide and hypercapnic acidosis
Department Neurological Science and Vision. Sect. Physiology, Faculty of Exercise and Sports Science, University of Verona, Via Casorati, 43, 37131 Verona, Italy
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Received 21 January 2005; accepted 27 January 2005
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See article by Heintz et al. [4] (pages 55–63) in this issue.
In the past two decades, nitric oxide (NO), a molecule whose natural biological role was recognized in a relatively recent period [1], has gained wide credit as a possible agent of physiological and pathological reactions, including those related to the heart and the cardiovascular system. The rapidly increasing wealth of scientific evidence, however, often led to unresolved contradictory results [2], to the extent that, in a recent review on "Nitric oxide and cardiovascular function," Kelly et al. [3] concluded that the explosion of new information over the past 5 years "has generated much light as