Consistent antioxidant and antihypertensive effects of oral sodium nitrite in DOCA-salt hypertension
Hypertension is a common disease that includes oxidative stress as a major feature, and oxidative stress impairs physiological nitric oxide (NO) activity promoting cardiovascular pathophysiological mechanisms. While inorganic nitrite and nitrate are now recognized as relevant sources of NO after the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-08-01
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Series: | Redox Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231715000609 |