New role of molecule in the health of body's back-up blood circulation

Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 02:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered that the abundance of collateral blood vessels in a healthy individual and their growth or remodeling into "natural bypass vessels" depends on how much of a key signaling molecule, nitric oxide, is present.

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