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EDRF

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EDRF,
abbreviation for endothelial-derived relaxing factor, a term which is now used synonymously with nitric oxide.
EDRF
endothelium-derived relaxing factor.
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Eight years later, he figured out that EDRF was in fact nitric oxide.
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NO is known as the endothelium-derived relaxing factor, or EDRF, and a liable free radical with a half-life of about three to five seconds.
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Nitric oxide is a biogenic messenger, an EDRF (15,16), and it activates the guanylyl cyclase system (17) [it converts guanosine triphosphate to cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)], raising the cGMP pool and therefore inducing, among other things, vasodilatation (17) by lowering the intracellular calcium ion (16).
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