Dietary nitrate attenuates oxidative stress, prevents cardiac and renal injuries, and reduces blood pressure in salt-induced hypertension

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 574-585

  Carlström, Mattias ^a,b   Persson, A Erik G ^a   Larsson, Erik ^a   Hezel, Michael ^b   Scheffer, Peter G ^c   Teerlink, Tom ^c   Weitzberg, Eddie ^b   Lundberg, Jon O ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ADMA; DASH; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; S Nitrosothiol; Uninephrectomy

Indexed keywords

6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; 8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; ARGININE; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; MALONALDEHYDE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRITE; NITROGEN OXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM NITRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY INJURY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NITROSYLATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RAT; RENAL PROTECTION; SALT INTAKE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; KIDNEY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEINURIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 79551495798     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvq366     Document Type: Article

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