Nitrite supplementation reverses vascular endothelial dysfunction and large elastic artery stiffness with aging

Aging Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 429-437

  Sindler, Amy L ^a   Fleenor, Bradley S ^a   Calvert, John W ^b   Marshall, Kurt D ^a   Zigler, Melanie L ^a   Lefer, David J ^b   Seals, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial aging; Inflammation; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; APOCYNIN; CYTOKINE; DRINKING WATER; NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SEPIAPTERIN; SODIUM NITRITE; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEMPOL;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ACETOPHENONES; ACETYLCHOLINE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; CYTOKINES; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MYOGRAPHY; NADPH OXIDASE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SODIUM NITRITE; SPIN LABELS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

MUS;

EID: 79955960774     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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