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- Introduces a uniform nitric oxide threshold theory in disease and health
- Explains why low-level nitric oxide is beneficial and high-level nitric oxide is harmful for health
- Guides people to understand the potential of artemisinin in antitumor, antibacterial infection, anti-inflammation, and antiaging
- Prospects to reveal the systemic and chronic low-grade inflammation as a common initiator of dermentia, obesity, and cancer
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book discusses both the beneficial and harmful aspects of NO in biology and medicine, and also introduces the emerging discovery of artemisinin in antitumor, antibacterial infection, anti-inflammation, and antiaging contexts. In 1992 nitric oxide (NO) was voted “Molecule of the Year” by Science magazine, and the discovery of its physiological roles has led to Nobel Prize-winning work in neuroscience, physiology and immunology. The book explains why we should maintain a steady-state NO level that is derived from neuronal or epithelial NO synthase, and avoid the extremely high NO level resulting from inducible NO synthase. The book offers a valuable resource for medical chemists, clinicians, biologists and all those interested in health and disease.
Authors and Affiliations
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Tropical Medicine Institute, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
Qing-Ping Zeng
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Artemisinin and Nitric Oxide
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms and Implications in Disease and Health
Authors: Qing-Ping Zeng
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47688-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47687-1Published: 08 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47688-8Published: 23 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 126
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer Research, Diabetes, Neurobiology, Rheumatology, Geriatrics/Gerontology