Nitric Oxide and Related Substances as Neural Messengers

Solomon H. Snyder and Ted M. Dawson

S. H. Snyder
Departments of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences,
and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland 21205.

T. M. Dawson
Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland 21287.


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published 2000