Effects of long-term dietary nitrate supplementation in mice

Redox Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 234-242

  Hezel, Michael P ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Schiffer, Tomas A ^a   Larsen, Filip J ^a   Checa, Antonio ^a   Wheelock, Craig E ^a   Carlström, Mattias ^a   Lundberg, Jon O ^a   Weitzberg, Eddie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Long term; Nitrate; Supplementation; Survival; Toxicity; Treatment

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; INTERLEUKIN 10; NITRATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM NITRATE; AMINO ACID; CYTOKINE; INSULIN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BODY COMPOSITION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXERCISE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HOST RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESPONSE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SURVIVAL; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; MITOCHONDRION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOKINES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA; NADPH OXIDASE; NITRATES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84930664492     PISSN: 22132317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2015.05.004     Document Type: Article

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