Recent studies show that nitrate and nitrite are physiologically recycled in blood and tissue to form NO and other bioactive nitrogen oxides. Thus, they should be viewed as storage pools for NO-like ...

While systolic blood pressure typically increases during exercise as the heart pumps harder, diastolic blood pressure should remain relatively stable; significant changes, however, warrant a medical ...

In the United States, flu season typically lasts from October to May. The flu virus affects people of all ages each year, and symptoms include coughing, runny nose, fever, chills, body aches, and ...

The field of intracrine physiology attempts to codify the biological actions of intracrines—extracellular signaling proteins or peptides that also operate in the intracellular space, either because ...