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An Overview of Endothelium: Function and Effect on Blood Flow

12 Nov 2022 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube lecture by Anne Truong MD explaining that inflammation (example given: "gum tea") impairs the endothelial barrier and function. Endothelial cells produce nitric oxide, which promotes blood flow by relaxing vascular smooth muscle, contributes to barrier function, and limits excessive inflammation. The endothelium also produces prostacyclin, described here as an anti-inflammatory substance.

When you have inflammation, such as something as simple as gum tea, it affects the barrier, it affects the function of the endothelium. So the endothelium, the endothelial cell, produce nitric oxide. And we know that nitric oxide is good for blood flow, it relaxes smooth muscle and it also acts as a barrier and it also prevents excessive inflammation. And it also produces prostacycline, which is an anti inflammatory substance.