Reductase activity of polyphenols?: A commentary on "Red wine-dependent reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide in the stomach"

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1226-1228

  Balzer, Jan ^a   Rassaf, Tienush ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FLAVONOID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; POLYPHENOL;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED WINE;

EID: 34548792319     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2007.07.018     Document Type: Note

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