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SUBMITTER: Totzeck M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3410747 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Totzeck Matthias M Hendgen-Cotta Ulrike B UB Luedike Peter P Berenbrink Michael M Klare Johann P JP Steinhoff Heinz-Juergen HJ Semmler Dominik D Shiva Sruti S Williams Daryl D Kipar Anja A Gladwin Mark T MT Schrader Juergen J Kelm Malte M Cossins Andrew R AR Rassaf Tienush T
Circulation 20120609 3
<h4>Background</h4>Hypoxic vasodilation is a physiological response to low oxygen tension that increases blood supply to match metabolic demands. Although this response has been characterized for >100 years, the underlying hypoxic sensing and effector signaling mechanisms remain uncertain. We have shown that deoxygenated myoglobin in the heart can reduce nitrite to nitric oxide (NO·) and thereby contribute to cardiomyocyte NO· signaling during ischemia. On the basis of recent observations that m ...[more]