Robert Furchgott furchgott, RF (1983). Role of endothelium in responses of vascular smooth muscle . furchgott, RF (1988). Studies on relaxation of rabbit aorta by sodium http://www.hscbklyn.edu/pharmacology/furch.htm
Extractions: The Nature of the Endothelium-Derived Relaxing Factor Our research includes studies on the mechanisms by which various vasodilators, both endothelium-dependent and independent, and near ultraviolet radiation produce relaxation of vascular smooth muscle. Also, we are investigating whether the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) is simply nitric oxide or a mixture of substances. In 1980, we reported that endothelial cells have an obligatory role in the relaxation of arteries by acetylcholine (ACh) and related muscarinic agonists, and that the relaxation results from the stimulation by the muscarinic agonist of the release from the endothelial calls of a very labile diffusible factor which acts on the adjacent smooth muscle cells to cause their relaxation. This factor was called the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). Within a short time, a number of other endothelium-dependent vasodilators were found. EDRF released from endothelial cells was shown to activate soluble guanylyl cyclase in the smooth muscle cells, giving rise to an increase in cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), which appeared to have a causal role in producing the relaxation. Although some very potent scavengers of EDRF, such as hemoglobin (Hb) and the superoxide anion (O ) were discovered, the chemical nature of EDRF eluded identification until 1986, when it was proposed independently by us and by one other investigator at an international conference that EDRF is nitric oxide (NO). Within two years after that, other laboratories had demonstrated that the NO synthesized in endothelial cells is a product of the action of a calcium/calmodulin dependent oxygenase, nitric oxide synthase (NOS), which oxidizes a guanidinium nitrogen of L-arginine to yield NO and citrulline (see Fig. 1).
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Extractions: By 1986, he had worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism and, from his 6th floor lab at the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, announced that EDRF was in fact the tiny molecule nitric oxide (NO).Between those years, laboratories around the globe were detailing EDRF's importance in the body's physiology, from regulating blood pressure to preventing blood clots.
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Extractions: Dr. Robert F. Furchgott SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn Dr. Furchgott was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries concerning "nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system." In 1980, Dr. Furchgott published his discovery of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), a mysterious chemical in the inner linings of the arteries that controls the arterys widening and narrowing. Six years later, he identified EDRF as nitric oxide. Dr. Furchgotts findings opened up a new area of research, which is contributing much to our understanding of cardiovascular physiology and is helping doctors save lives.
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Extractions: This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Related articles in MI Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal ... Download to citation manager PubMed PubMed Citation Crosstalk Robert Furchgott generally describes his contributions to pharmacology "accidents" just waiting to happen, and he speaks of his "good luck" in stumbling upon the work that led, in 1998, to bestowal of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (to Furchgott, as well as to Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad). If you read any of the biographical material available on Furchgott, however, it is clear that such "accidents" could have easily been dismissed by minds any less prepared or less enthusiastic for research. (For an autobiographical sketch, see
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Extractions: Robert Furchgott is an American pharmacologist who, along with Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery and demonstration that nitric oxide can act as a signaling molecule. His efforts were a major part in uncovering an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen. His research and contributions opened an active field of research into the behavior of nitric oxide. Furchgott was born on June 4, 1916 in Charleston, SC and lived there until the age of thirteen. In 1929, his family decided to move to Orangeburg, SC. Later, in 1937, Furchgott received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina and in 1940 he received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Northwestern University. He joined SUNY-Brooklyn's department of pharmacology in 1956, a position he held until 1988, when he became an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida. Furchgott was able to demonstrate that cells in the endothelium, or inner lining, of blood vessels produce a signaling molecule. The molecule, which he named endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) signals smooth muscle cells in blood vessel walls to relax, dilating the vessels. The research done by Furchgott was very important in the development of the highly successful anti-impotence drug sildenafil citrate, more commonly known as Viagra. Researchers have suggested that nitric oxide could be a key to improved treatments for heart disease, shock, and cancer.
Robert F. Furchgott 1916 - Loius J. Ignarro 1941 - Ferid Murad 1936 robert F. furchgott was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1916, with an innateinterest in biology and science. He attended both the Universities of http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/rodbell/1_Furchgott_Ignarro_Murad.htm
Extractions: S cientists build on each other's work. Furchgott, while studying the effects of drugs on blood vessels, discovered that blood vessels dilate when their surface cells (the endothelium) signal the muscle cells to relax, using a molecule he called "endothelium-derived relaxing factor" or EDRF. Murad noticed that nitroglycerin (which dilates blood vessels) releases the gas nitric oxide (NO) which relaxes the smooth muscles. Ignarro also analyzed EDRF and discovered at the same time as Furchgott that EDRF was truly NO. This was the first evidence that a gas may act as a signal molecule. NO has recently been found to be important in fighting infections, regulating blood pressure, and activating brain functions. For more information about their work, see www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1998/press.html "I think that my greatest pleasure has come from each first demonstration in my laboratory that experiments designed to test a new hypothesis developed to explain some earlier, often puzzling or paradoxical finding, have given results consistent with the hypothesis." Robert F. Furchgott, Les Prix Nobel, 1998 Robert F. Furchgott was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1916, with an innate interest in biology and science. He attended both the Universities of South and North Carolina and did his Ph.D. work at Northwestern University in Chicago. He worked at Cornell University Medical College on phosphates, Washington University in St. Louis on smooth muscles, and at Suny Medical Center in Brooklyn on the relaxation of blood vessels. For more about Furchgott, see
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Extractions: Home Robert F. Furchgott: S cientists build on each other's work. Furchgott, while studying the effects of drugs on blood vessels, discovered that blood vessels dilate when their surface cells (the endothelium) signal the muscle cells to relax, using a molecule he called "endothelium-derived relaxing factor" or EDRF. Murad noticed that nitroglycerin (which dilates blood vessels) releases the gas nitric oxide (NO) which relaxes the smooth muscles. Ignarro also analyzed EDRF and discovered at the same time as Furchgott that EDRF was truly NO. This was the first evidence that a gas may act as a signal molecule. NO has recently been found to be important in fighting infections, regulating blood pressure, and activating brain functions. For more information about their work, see www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1998/press.html
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Extractions: Within the first couple of years of high school, I knew that I would like to be a scientist. My parents were encouraging: they gave me chemistry sets and a small microscope as presents. I liked to read popular books about scientists, although there were not many available at that time. My father subscribed to the Sunday New York Times, in which there was often a column on science that I found very exciting. During the four years that I was in high school, my older brother Arthur was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I wanted to attend college there also, but that was not possible when I finished high school in 1933 because tuition for me, as an out-of-state resident, was more than my father could afford at that time. So I spent my freshman year at the University of South Carolina, where my tuition was much less. However, by the summer of 1934, my father moved his business from Orangeburg to Goldsboro, N.C., where he felt that the local economy was better. So now, as a resident of North Carolina, I was able to register at the University at Chapel Hill as a sophomore majoring in chemistry. Northwestern and Cold Spring Harbor (1937-1940) Before I went to Chicago, I worked for two summer months in 1937 for Eastern Airlines at the Philadelphia airport - a job which my older brother Arthur, who was employed by that airline, helped me obtain. The job allowed me to save some money and also allowed me free air travel to Chicago. That helped a lot since my stipend as a teaching assistant at Northwestern was only $50 a month for a nine-month academic year. When I arrived in Chicago, it had already been arranged for me to share a room with two more advanced graduate students. Living in Chicago was quite a change from living in the Carolinas. When I would walk to work in the winter from our rooming house, which was about a mile from the medical school, the chill wind whipping in from Lake Michigan along Chicago Avenue was quite an experience for a Southern boy.
Robert Furchgott, Ph.D. robert F. furchgott, Ph.D. Distinguished University Professor. Ph.D., NorthwesternUniversity, 1940 furchgor@musc.edu Tel 843792-9340 Fax 843-792-2475 http://www2.musc.edu/pharm/furchgott.html
Extractions: Publications Dr. Furchgott was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina in 1937 and a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Northwestern University in 1940. He taught at the Cornell University College of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology from 1949-1956. Dr. Furchgott served as professor and chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (now SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn) from 1956-1982, and is presently distinguished professor emeritus. Dr. Furchgott is recognized for his research in drug-receptor theory, autonomic neuroeffector mechanisms, and vascular pharmacology and physiology. He performed seminal experiments which led to the identification of nitric oxide as a key signaling component from endothelial cells, influencing smooth muscle cell relaxation. Dr. Furchgott was presented with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, 1998. In 2001, he was appointed Distinguished University Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.
