Nitric oxide was largely regarded as a toxic pollutant until 1987, when its biologic similarities to endothelium-derived relaxing factor were demonstrated.1 Subsequently, nitric oxide and endothelium-derived relaxing factor were considered a single entity, modulating vascular tone through the stimulated formation of cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (Fig. 1).2 Endogenous nitric oxide is form...

The opportunistic human fungal pathogen Candida albicans can cause a variety of diseases, ranging from superficial mucosal infections to life-threatening systemic infections. Phagocytic cells of the innate immune response, such as neutrophils and macrophages, are important first-line responders to an infection and generate reactive oxygen and nitrogen species as part of their protective antimic...

Astrocytes produce numerous mediators under conditions of inflammation in the central nervous system. One such mediator is nitric oxide (NO) derived from nitric oxide synthase-2 (NOS-2), the high output, inducible NOS isoform. Expression of NOS-2 and production of NO can be stimulated in astrocyte cultures by combinations of cytokines and lipopolysaccharide, a gram-negative bacterial endotoxin....

Schistosoma mansoni infected C57Bl/6 inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)-deficient and non-deficient malnourished mice, both fed a balanced controlled diet were studied. Interleukins, IL-4 and IL-10 responses to soluble egg antigens (SEA) 90 days after infection, were determined. Our results suggest that in iNOS deficient, malnourished mice, 90 days after of infection, nitric oxide has a dow...

Abbreviations: Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP), diabetic neuropathy (DN), diabetic mice (DM), oxidative stress (OS), inflammatory cytokines (IC), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), proinflammatory cytokines (pro-IC), neuropathic pain (NP), nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), Reactive oxygen species (ROS), nitric oxide (NO), N-methyl-Daspartate (NMDA), mitogen-activated protein kina...