When there's oxygen around, nitric oxide breaks down slowly in tissues, which lets it travel farther from blood vessels than if it disappeared at a steady rate. Think of it like a scent that lingers...
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When there's oxygen around, nitric oxide breaks down slowly in tissues, which lets it travel farther from blood vessels than if it disappeared at a steady rate. Think of it like a scent that lingers...
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The oxygen-dependent decay of nitric oxide in tissue results in a flattened concentration gradient of nitric oxide, which enables nitric oxide to diffuse over greater distances from blood vessels compared to a scenario in which its half-life is constant.
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Study: The biological lifetime of nitric oxide: implications for the perivascular dynamics of NO and O2.
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