The right way to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic

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The right way to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic

29 July 2020

Vanessa Weenink

Wednesday 29 July 2020, 12:15 AM

Breathing in through the nose is an integral part of meditation and delivers virus-fighting gases to the lungs

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Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist Louis Ignarro discusses how nitric oxide works in the body as well as its potential role as an inhaled therapy for COVID-19

Key points, The nasal cavities continuously produce nitric oxide that is chemically identical to the NO used clinically by inhalation. NO triggers many differen

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2. Akerström S, Mousavi-Jazi M, Klingström J, et al. Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. J Virol 2005;79(3):1966–69.

3. Keyaerts E, Vijgen L, Chen L, et al. Inhibition of SARS-coronavirus infection in vitro by S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine, a nitric oxide donor compound. Int J Infect Dis 2004;8(4):223–26.

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