ReviewClinical pharmacology : advances and applications2015
Carbon monoxide: a critical quantitative analysis and review of the extent and limitations of its second messenger function.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Medical Gas Therapy for Tissue, Organ, and CNS Protection: A Systematic Review of Effects, Mechanisms, and Challenges.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Pooled it
- Hemolysis during and after 21 days of head-down-tilt bed rest.Physiological reports · 2017Trial
- Heme and CO metabolism by the canonical human heme oxygenases.Journal of inorganic biochemistry · 2026Review
- Pd(0)-Mediated Deallylation Chemistry: A Reassessment of Its Application in Sensing CO.The Journal of organic chemistry · 2025Article
- CO and NO Coordinate Developmental Neuron Migration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Compelling Evidence: A Critical Update on the Therapeutic Potential of Carbon Monoxide.Medicinal research reviews · 2025Review
- A Tale of Two Cities in Fluorescent Sensing of Carbon Monoxide: Probes That Detect CO and Those That Detect Only Chemically Reactive CO Donors (CORMs), but Not CO.The Journal of organic chemistry · 2024Review
- Carbon Monoxide as a Potential Therapeutic Agent: A Molecular Analysis of Its Safety Profiles.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2024Review
- Recent advances in the application of gasotransmitters in spinal cord injury.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2024Review
- On the Question of CO's Ability to Induce HO-1 Expression in Cell Culture: A Comparative Study Using Different CO Sources.ACS chemical biology · 2024Article
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: From Microbes to Therapeutics.Annual review of medicine · 2024Review
- Click chemistry and drug delivery: A bird's-eye view.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2023Review
- Radiosynthesis, Preclinical, and Clinical Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Carbon-11 Labeled Endogenous and Natural Exogenous Compounds.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- The Role of Carbon Monoxide in the Reactions of Arterial Branches of the Uterine Artery of Rats to Low-Intensity Irradiation with a Helium-Neon Laser.Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine · 2022Article
- Carbon Monoxide Signaling: Examining Its Engagement with Various Molecular Targets in the Context of Binding Affinity, Concentration, and Biologic Response.Pharmacological reviews · 2022Review
- Carbon monoxide signaling and soluble guanylyl cyclase: Facts, myths, and intriguing possibilities.Biochemical pharmacology · 2022Review
- Regulation of protein function and degradation by heme, heme responsive motifs, and CO.Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology · 2022Review
- Six degrees head-down tilt bed rest caused low-grade hemolysis: a prospective randomized clinical trial.NPJ microgravity · 2021Article
- Ontogeny of Carbon Monoxide-Related Gene Expression in a Deep-Diving Marine Mammal.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Cyanine-Flavonol Hybrids for Near-Infrared Light-Activated Delivery of Carbon Monoxide.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Endogenously produced carbon monoxide (CO) is commonly believed to be a ubiquitous second messenger involved in a wide range of physiological and pathological responses. The major evidence supporting this concept is that CO is produced endogenously via heme oxygenase-catalyzed breakdown of heme and that experimental exposure to CO alters tissue function. However, it remains to be conclusively demonstrated that there are specific receptors for CO and that endogenous CO production is sufficient to alter tissue function. Unlike other signaling molecules, CO is not significantly metabolized, and it is removed from cells solely via rapid diffusion into blood, which serves as a near infinite sink. This non-metabolizable nature of CO renders the physiology of this gas uniquely susceptible to quantitative modeling. This review analyzes each of the steps involved in CO signaling: 1) the background CO partial pressure (PCO) and the blood and tissue CO binding; 2) the affinity of the putative CO receptors; 3) the rate of endogenous tissue CO production; and 4) the tissue PCO that results from the balance between this endogenous CO production and diffusion to the blood sink. Because existing data demonstrate that virtually all endogenous CO production results from the routine "housekeeping" turnover of heme, only a small fraction can play a signaling role. The novel aspect of the present report is to demonstrate via physiological modeling that this small fraction of CO production is seemingly insufficient to raise intracellular PCO to the levels required for the conventional, specific messenger receptor activation. It is concluded that the many physiological alterations observed with exogenous CO administration are probably produced by the non-specific CO inhibition of cytochrome C oxidase activity, with release of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and that this ROS signaling pathway is a potential effector mechanism for endogenously produced CO.
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