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Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Improves Revascularization in Chronic Ischemia
Author(s) -
Ulrike B. HendgenCotta,
Peter Luedike,
Matthias Totzeck,
Martina Kropp,
Andreas Schicho,
Pia Stock,
Christos Rammos,
Michael Nießen,
Christian Heiß,
Jon O. Lundberg,
Eddie Weitzberg,
Malte Kelm,
Tienush Rassaf
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.112.112912
Subject(s) - medicine , nitric oxide , ischemia , cd31 , revascularization , nitrate , pharmacology , surgery , angiogenesis , endocrinology , chemistry , myocardial infarction , organic chemistry
Revascularization is an adaptive repair mechanism that restores blood flow to undersupplied ischemic tissue. Nitric oxide plays an important role in this process. Whether dietary nitrate, serially reduced to nitrite by commensal bacteria in the oral cavity and subsequently to nitric oxide and other nitrogen oxides, enhances ischemia-induced remodeling of the vascular network is not known.

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