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A gas just says NO to a virus

Nitric oxide may attack viruses by deactivating a crucial enzyme.

References:

Saura, M. . . . and C.J. Lowenstein. 1999. An antiviral mechanism of nitric oxide: Inhibition of a viral protease. Immunity 10(January):21.

Sources:

Charles J. Lowenstein
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Baltimore, MD 21205

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 9, February 27, 1999, p. 139. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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