âWeâve focused for many years on the nitric oxide pathway to find new therapies that might improve outcomes for babies with pulmonary hypertension,â Aschner said. In the body, the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS) produces nitric oxide from the amino acid arginine. Aschner and colleagues had discovered that NOS is present in a multi-protein complex, which is important for the activation of NOS and production of nitric oxide.
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Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Isle of Wight County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was named after the Isle of Wight, in the English Channel, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2010 census, the population was 35,270. Its county seat is Isle of Wight. Isle of Wight County is located in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its northeastern boundary is on the coast of Hampton Roads waterway. Isle of Wight County features two incorporated towns, Smithfield and Windsor. The first courthouse for the county was built in Smithfield in 1750. The original courthouse and its associated tavern (The Smithfield Inn) are still standing. As the county population developed, leaders thought they needed a county seat near the center of the area.