Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. mgladwin@nih.gov
Abstract:
Nitrite has now been proposed to play an important physiological role in signaling, blood flow regulation and hypoxic nitric oxide homeostasis. A recent two-day symposium at the US National Institutes of Health highlighted recent advances in the understanding of nitrite biochemistry, physiology and therapeutics.