The unpleasant odor of intestinal gas or flatus, composed of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon, according to new research this action of natural gas in the blood cells of laboratory animals can help maintain balanced blood pressure.
This effect would be produced by relaxing the blood vessels which prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is “no doubt” produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, researchers said.
The paper now know hydrogen sulfide plays in regulating blood pressure, can make it possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to current methods of treatment for hypertension, “said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Zinder.
Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of “gasotransmisores, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions.
This study is the first to reveal that the CSE enzyme that triggers hydrogen sulfide is activated itself in the same way as enzymes, when they trigger their respective gasotransmisores and nitric oxide in the formation of the enzyme, which also regulates blood pressure, Dr. Snyder said.
The gasotransmisores are common in mammals throughout the evolutionary tree, these findings about the importance of hydrogen sulfide are thought to have broad applications in human diseases such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.
