The redox interplay between nitrite and nitric oxide: From the gut to the brain

Redox Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 276-284

  Pereira, Cassilda ^a   Ferreira, Nuno R ^a   Rocha, Bárbara S ^a   Barbosa, Rui M ^a   Laranjinha, João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Brain; Dietary nitrate; Glutamate; Gut; Nitric oxide; Nitrite

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIPID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITROGEN OXIDE; POLYPHENOL; PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; COLON; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MOUTH CAVITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH; STOMACH CONTENT; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; DIETARY INTAKE; HYPOXIA; LIPID ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NITRATION; NITROSATION; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84879005609     PISSN: 22132317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2013.04.004     Document Type: Review

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