รางวัลโนเบลสาขาแพทย์ศาสตร์ในปี 1998

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998   

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".

                    

Robert F Furchgott, born 1916                        Louis J Ignarro, born 1941                                         Ferid Murad, born 1936

Dept.of Pharmacology,                     Dept.of Molecular and Medical                   Dept.of Integrative BiologySUNY Health Science Center            Pharmacology UCLA school of Medicine              Pharmacology and Physiology
New York                                                          Los Angeles                                                              University of Texas Medical 

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A New Principle

Nitric 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.