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Computers suggest that when nitric oxide slows down how cells use oxygen and also helps use up oxygen near blood vessels, it lets oxygen reach farther into tissues—up to two times the width of a human hair beyond the blood vessels—than it would without these effects.

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The study found that nitric oxide, a molecule made near blood vessels, helps cells use oxygen more efficiently and lasts longer farther from the vessel — which lets oxygen reach tissues much farther away than previously thought.

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