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“The influence of nitric oxide on our daily living“ Nitric oxide is a colorless, highly diffusible gas that is naturally produced by essentially all life forms. It commands our attention, literally. Our every thought is in some way made possible through its action on neurons in our brain and the blood vessels that provide supporting nutrients. It strongly affects the control of blood pressure, sexual functioning, and our body's processing of the food we eat; it even brings added life to cut flowers. It is a signaling molecule that influences a host of internal cellular events and coordinated processes among cells, including whole-body systems level behaviors. It brings life to life. In this lecture, I will discuss the myriad of biological processes affected and made possible by nitric oxide. Among these is a host of pathological states. Efforts to address this has fostered commercial development of pharmaceuticals and the need to consider how use of a multitude of body monitor
