Interactions between cocoa flavanols and inorganic nitrate: Additive effects on endothelial function at achievable dietary amounts

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-128

  Rodriguez Mateos, Ana ^a   Hezel, Michael ^b   Aydin, Hilal ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a   Lundberg, Jon O ^b   Weitzberg, Eddie ^b   Spencer, Jeremy P E ^c   Heiss, Christian ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Cocoa flavanols; Endothelial function; Freeradicals; Interactions; Nitrate; NO

Indexed keywords

EPICATECHIN; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; FLAVONOID; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD LEVEL; CACAO; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXCRETION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MACRONUTRIENT; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URINE LEVEL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHEMISTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH; URINE;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CACAO; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; STOMACH; VASODILATION;

EID: 84921952685     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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