[Biological role of carbon monoxide in nervous system function]

K K Borowicz 1 , Z Kleinrok

1. Katedra i Zakład Farmakologii i Toksykologii Akademii Medycznej w Lublinie.

Published:

GICID: 01.3001.0000.3072

Available language versions: en pl

Issue: Postepy Hig Med Dosw 1996; 50 (1)

Abstract

Carbon monoxide (CO), like nitric oxide (NO), is a vasodilatating substance. CO acts also as a putative neural retrograde messenger in the nervous system where it has been implicated in the regulation of large number of physiological and pathological processes, including long-term potentiation and depression, learning and memory, pain processing, vasodilatation and myorelaxation, inhibition of platelet aggregation and hormone releasing.

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