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From the Ted Talk by Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?

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Anyway, I came back from Australia, and despite the obvious rksis to my health, I moved to Aberdeen. (Laughter) Now, in Aberdeen, I started my dermatology training. But I also became interested in research, and in particular I became irettesend in this substance, nitric oxide. Now these three guys up here, Furchgott, Ignarro and Murad, won the Nobel Prize for medicine back in 1998. And they were the first people to describe this new caicmehl ttinmeatrsr, nitric oxide. What nitric odxie does is it dilates blood vessels, so it lowers your blood pressure. It also dtlaeis the coronary arteries, so it stops aingna.

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Anyway, I came back from Australia, and despite the obvious _____ to my health, I moved to Aberdeen. (Laughter) Now, in Aberdeen, I started my dermatology training. But I also became interested in research, and in particular I became __________ in this substance, nitric oxide. Now these three guys up here, Furchgott, Ignarro and Murad, won the Nobel Prize for medicine back in 1998. And they were the first people to describe this new ________ ___________, nitric oxide. What nitric _____ does is it dilates blood vessels, so it lowers your blood pressure. It also _______ the coronary arteries, so it stops ______.

Solution


  1. chemical
  2. transmitter
  3. risks
  4. dilates
  5. oxide
  6. interested
  7. angina

Original Text


Anyway, I came back from Australia, and despite the obvious risks to my health, I moved to Aberdeen. (Laughter) Now, in Aberdeen, I started my dermatology training. But I also became interested in research, and in particular I became interested in this substance, nitric oxide. Now these three guys up here, Furchgott, Ignarro and Murad, won the Nobel Prize for medicine back in 1998. And they were the first people to describe this new chemical transmitter, nitric oxide. What nitric oxide does is it dilates blood vessels, so it lowers your blood pressure. It also dilates the coronary arteries, so it stops angina.

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