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Correspondence
Nature 396, 614 (17 December 1998) | doi:10.1038/25215
Protest at Nobel omission of Moncada
José Benjamín López Guillén1, Eduardo A. Espinoza Fiallos1, Ana Belén Castillo2, Gustavo A. Vallejo2, Jack R. Lancaster, Jr3 & Bo G. Malmström4
- Universidad de El Salvador, Ciudad Universitaria, Final 25 Avenida Norte, San Salvador, El Salvador
- Universidad Nacional de Honduras, Ciudad Universitaria, Boulevard Suyapa, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1901 Perdido St, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, SE-405 30 Goteborg, Sweden
The University of El Salvador and its Faculty of Medicine and the National University of Honduras and its Faculty of Medical Sciences wish to express their deep regret and strong protest at the exclusion of Salvador Moncada from the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1.The first demonstration that nitric oxide is a biological mediator in the cardiovascular system was made by Moncada and his group in Nature2 in 1987.
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