Artemisinin and Nitric Oxide, 2015 Mechanisms and Implications in Disease and Health SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science Series

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.

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