Discovering the medical implications of Nitric Oxide (NO) as a signalling molecule for the heart system earned Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine. A signaling molecule sends info between cells. They are launched from the cell mailing the information, cross over the space between cells, and…
Category: inflammation
Your Immune System and Inflammation
When your body’s immune system protects us from infection and foreign substances like toxins, bacteria and viruses you can get inflammation . But , in auto immune diseases, the immune system wrongly sets off an inflammatory response when there are no foreign substances to fight off and creates damage to its own cells The body…