L-Arginine supplementation influenced nitrite but not nitrate and total nitrite in rabbit model of hypercholesterolemia

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 179-184

  Javanmard, Shaghayegh Haghjooy ^a   Nematbakhsh, Mehdi ^a   Monajemi, Alireza ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

L arginine; Nitrate; Nitric oxide (no); Nitrite; Total nitrite

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; CHOLESTEROL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; NITRATES; NITRITES; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 61349087980     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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