Nitric oxide supplementation treats common metabolic disease
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 20:10
in Health & Medicine
A team of researchers has discovered a treatment for a common metabolic disorder. The study reports that supplementation of nitric oxide (NO) in mice and man afflicted with argininosuccinic aciduria (ASA), a urea cycle disorder (UCD), results in long-term heart and neuropsychological improvements.
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