Electrochemical detection of physiological nitric oxide: materials and methods
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Chemiluminescence-based Assays for Detection of Nitric Oxide and its Derivatives from Autoxidation and Nitrosated Compounds
Published on: February 16, 2022
Barry W Allen1, Louis A Coury, Claude A Piantadosi
1Department of Anesthesiology, Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Abstract:
Advances in the electroanalytical technology of NO detection make it possible to detect the release of robust concentrations of NO from living systems under pathological or pharmacological conditions. However, technical improvements should enable the construction of research instruments with one or two orders of magnitude improvement in both detection limit and temporal resolution. Such instruments would be capable of revealing physiological NO production and could help quantify the correlations between NO levels and health or disease, ultimately leading to important applications in biomedical research and clinical medicine.

