Flavonoid-rich apples and nitrate-rich spinach augment nitric oxide status and improve endothelial function in healthy men and women: A randomized controlled trial

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-102

  Bondonno, Catherine P ^a   Yang, Xingbin ^b   Croft, Kevin D ^a   Considine, Michael J ^c,d   Ward, Natalie C ^a   Rich, Lisa ^a   Puddey, Ian B ^a   Swinny, Ewald ^e   Mubarak, Aidilla ^a   Hodgson, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e Chemistry Centre Western Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Flavonoids; Free radicals; Nitrate; Nitric oxide; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; S NITROSOTHIOL;

ADULT; APPLE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINACH; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MALUS; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; S-NITROSOTHIOLS; SPINACIA OLERACEA; SYSTOLE; VASODILATION;

MALUS X DOMESTICA; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 84655167655     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.09.028     Document Type: Article

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