SWhat changed
Showed rabbit-vessel relaxation requires intact endothelium and inferred released relaxing substance.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1980 Nature experiment in isolated animal vessels. It does not absorb later identification of nitric oxide, human clinical effects, other endothelium-derived factors or all vascular signaling.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1980 Nature experiment in isolated animal vessels. It does not absorb later identification of nitric oxide, human clinical effects, other endothelium-derived factors or all vascular signaling.
Contributors
- R. F. Furchgott · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- J. V. Zawadzki · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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