'Rotten eggs' in the blood
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is a gas most commonly associated with the smell of stink bombs, sewage and rotten eggs, but a team of researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England and King's College London have now identified a role for this gas in regulating blood pressure, according to research published in the leading science journal 'Circulation.'...
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