Dietary nitrite in nitric oxide biology: A redox interplay with implications for pathophysiology and therapeutics

Current Drug Targets

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1351-1363

  Rocha, Bárbara S ^a   Gago, Bruno ^a   Pereira, Cassilda ^a   Barbosa, Rui M ^a   Bartesaghi, Silvina ^b   Lundberg, Jon O ^c   Radi, Rafael ^b   Laranjinha, João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethylnitrite; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; Polyphenols; Stomach

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DICLOFENAC; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; METHIONINE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; POLYPHENOL; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHLORINATION; DEAMINATION; DIET; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INGESTION; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOUTH CAVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATIVE STRESS; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; RED WINE; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SALMONELLA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH; STOMACH ULCER; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; DIET; ETHANOL; FOOD; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYPHENOLS; STOMACH; VASODILATION;

EID: 79959998237     PISSN: 13894501     EISSN: 18735592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138945011796150334     Document Type: Review

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