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Nitrate and nitrite in biology, nutrition and therapeutics

  • Jon O. Lundberg
  • , Mark T. Gladwin
  • , Amrita Ahluwalia
  • , Nigel Benjamin
  • , Nathan S. Bryan
  • , Anthony Butler
  • , Pedro Cabrales
  • , Angela Fago
  • , Martin Feelisch
  • , Peter C. Ford
  • , Andrew Freeman
  • , Michael Frenneaux
  • , Joel Friedman
  • , Malte Kelm
  • , Christopher G. Kevil
  • , Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro
  • , Andrey V. Kozlov
  • , Jack R. Lancaster
  • , David J. Lefer
  • , Kenneth McColl
  • Kenneth McCurry, Rakesh P. Patel, Joel Petersson, Tienush Rassaf, Valentin P. Reutov, George B. Richter-Addo, Alan Schechter, Sruti Shiva, Koichiro Tsuchiya, Ernst E. van Faassen, Andrew J. Webb, Brian S. Zuckerbraun, Jay L. Zweier, Eddie Weitzberg
  • Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry
  • Peninsula Medical School Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
  • University of St Andrews
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Ludwig Boltzmann Inst Expt & Clin Traumatol
  • University of Alabama
  • University of Glasgow
  • NIH
  • Utrecht University
  • University of Warwick
  • Wake Forest University
  • Ohio State University
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Tokushima University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Uppsala University
  • Emory University
  • Louisiana State University
  • University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Aarhus University
  • University of California at San Diego
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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Abstract

Inorganic nitrate and nitrite from endogenous or dietary sources are metabolized in vivo to nitric oxide (NO) and other bioactive nitrogen oxides. The nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway is emerging as an important mediator of blood flow regulation, cell signaling, energetics and tissue responses to hypoxia. The latest advances in our understanding of the biochemistry, physiology and therapeutics of nitrate, nitrite and NO were discussed during a recent 2-day meeting at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)865-869
Number of pages5
JournalNature Chemical Biology
Volume5
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2009

Keywords

  • ischemia-reperfusion injury
  • dietary nitrate
  • reductase-activity
  • blood-pressure
  • oxide production
  • humans
  • deoxyhemoglobin
  • hemoglobin
  • physiology
  • tolerance

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