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The Annals of thoracic surgery • 2002 | View Paper
“ L-arginine has been used to improve endothelial function by increasing nitric oxide ( NO ) bioavailability and in animal models this in turn has attenuated the progression of atherosclerosis.”
“In the asthmatic group, L-NMMA and L-arginine induced significant changes in exhaled NO (P < 0.01) but had no significant effect on AUC compared with placebo (geometric mean +/- SE: -204.3 +/- 1.5, -186.9 +/- 1.4, and -318.1 +/- 1.2%.”
“Thus although no direct measurements of NO synthesis were performed, putative markers of NO synthesis suggest that the renal vasodilatory response to L-arginine , at least in part, was due to increased production and release of NO.”