The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 |
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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for 1998 to Robert F
Furchgott, Louis J Ignarro and
Ferid Murad for their discoveries
concerning "the nitric oxide as a signalling
molecule in the cardiovascular system".
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| Robert F
Furchgott, born 1916 Dept. of Pharmacology, SUNY Health Science Center New York |
Louis J
Ignarro, born 1941 Dept. of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles |
Ferid Murad,
born 1936 Dept. of Integrative Biology Pharmacology and Physiology University of Texas Medical School, Houston |
A New PrincipleNitric Oxide, NO, is a short-lived, endogenously produced gas that acts as a signalling molecule in the body. Signal transmission by a gas, produced by one cell, which penetrates membranes and regulates the function of other cells is an entirely new principle for signalling in the human organism. |
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