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Amaral JH, Rizzi ES, Alves-Lopes R, Pinheiro LC, Tostes RC, Tanus-Santos JE. Antioxidant and antihypertensive responses to oral nitrite involves activation of the Nrf2 pathway. Free Radic Biol Med 2019; 141:261-268. [PMID: 31251976 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Impaired redox balance contributes to the cardiovascular alterations of hypertension and activation of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) pathway may counteract these alterations. While nitrite recycles back to NO and exerts antioxidant and antihypertensive effects, the mechanisms involved in these responses are not fully understood. We hypothesized that nitrite treatment of two-kidney, one-clip (2K1C) hypertensive rats activates the Nrf2 pathway, promotes the transcription of antioxidant genes, and improves the vascular redox imbalance and dysfunction in this model. Two doses of oral nitrite were studied: 15 mg/kg and the sub-antihypertensive dose of 1 mg/kg. Nitrite 15 mg/kg (but not 1 mg/kg) decreased blood pressure and increased circulating plasma nitrite and nitrate. Both doses blunted hypertension-induced increases in mesenteric artery reactive oxygen species concentrations assessed by DHE technique and restored the impaired mesenteric artery responses to acetylcholine. While 2K1C hypertension decreased nuclear Nrf2 accumulation, both doses of nitrite increased nuclear Nrf2 accumulation and mRNA expression of Nrf2-regulated genes including superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), thioredoxin-1(TRDX-1) and -2 (TRDX-2). To further confirm nitrite-mediated antioxidant effects, we measured vascular SOD and GPX activity and we found that nitrite at 1 or 15 mg/kg increased the activity of both enzymes (P < 0.05). These results suggest that activation of the Nrf2 pathway promotes antioxidant effects of nitrite, which may improve the vascular dysfunction in hypertension, even when nitrite is given at a sub-antihypertensive dose. These findings may have many clinical implications, particularly in the therapy of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.
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- Jefferson H Amaral
- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil.
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Broxterman RM, La Salle DT, Zhao J, Reese VR, Richardson RS, Trinity JD. Influence of dietary inorganic nitrate on blood pressure and vascular function in hypertension: prospective implications for adjunctive treatment. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2019; 127:1085-1094. [PMID: 31414959 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00371.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Dietary inorganic nitrate (nitrate) is a promising adjunctive treatment to reduce blood pressure and improve vascular function in hypertension. However, it remains unknown if the efficacy of nitrate is dependent upon an elevated blood pressure or altered by medication in patients with hypertension. Therefore, blood pressure and vascular function, measured by passive leg movement (PLM) and flow-mediated dilation (FMD), were assessed following 3 days of placebo (nitrate-free beetroot juice) and nitrate (nitrate-rich beetroot juice) administration in 13 patients (age: 53 ± 12 yr) with hypertension taking antihypertensive medications (study 1) and in 14 patients (49 ± 13 yr) with hypertension not taking antihypertensive medications (study 2). In study 1, plasma nitrite concentration was greater for nitrate than placebo (341 ± 118 vs. 308 ± 123 nmol/L, P < 0.05), yet blood pressure and vascular function were unaltered. In study 2, plasma nitrite concentration was greater for nitrate than placebo (340 ± 102 vs. 295 ± 93 nmol/L, P < 0.01). Systolic (136 ± 16 vs. 141 ± 19 mmHg), diastolic (84 ± 13 vs. 88 ± 12 mmHg), and mean (101 ± 12 vs. 106 ± 13 mmHg) blood pressures were lower (P < 0.05), whereas the PLM change in leg vascular conductance (6.0 ± 3.0 vs. 5.1 ± 2.6 mL·min-1·mmHg-1) and FMD (6.1 ± 2.4% vs. 4.1 ± 2.7%) were greater (P < 0.05) for nitrate than placebo. The changes in systolic blood pressure (r = -0.60) and FMD (r = -0.48) induced by nitrate were inversely correlated (P < 0.05) to the respective baseline values obtained in the placebo condition. Thus, the efficacy of nitrate to improve blood pressure and vascular function in hypertension appears to be dependent on the degree of blood pressure elevation and vascular dysfunction and not antihypertensive medication status, per se.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Dietary nitrate (nitrate) is a promising intervention to improve blood pressure and vascular function in hypertension. We demonstrate that these beneficial effects of nitrate are inversely related to the baseline value in a continuous manner with no distinction between antihypertensive medication status. Thus, the efficacy of nitrate to improve blood pressure and vascular function in hypertension appears to be dependent on the degree of blood pressure elevation and vascular dysfunction and not antihypertensive mediation status.
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- Ryan M Broxterman
- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Center on Aging, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.,Center on Aging, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Jones T, Dunn EL, Macdonald JH, Kubis HP, McMahon N, Sandoo A. The Effects of Beetroot Juice on Blood Pressure, Microvascular Function and Large-Vessel Endothelial Function: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study in Healthy Older Adults. Nutrients 2019; 11:nu11081792. [PMID: 31382524 PMCID: PMC6722817 DOI: 10.3390/nu11081792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Dietary nitrate (NO3−) has been reported to improve endothelial function (EF) and blood pressure (BP). However, most studies only assess large-vessel EF with little research on the microvasculature. Thus, the aim of the present pilot study is to examine NO3− supplementation on microvascular and large-vessel EF and BP. Twenty older adults (63 ± 6 years) were randomized to a beetroot juice (BRJ) or placebo (PLA) group for 28 (±7) days and attended three laboratory visitations. Across visitations, blood pressure, microvascular function and large-vessel EF were assessed by laser Doppler imaging (LDI) with iontophoresis of vasoactive substances and flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), respectively. Plasma NO3−concentrations, BP and the presence of NO3− reducing bacteria were also assessed. Plasma NO3− increased following two weeks of BRJ supplementation (p = 0.04) along with a concomitant decrease in systolic and diastolic BP of approximately −6 mmHg and −4 mmHg, respectively (p = 0.04; p = 0.01, respectively). BP remained unchanged in the PLA group. There were no significant differences in endothelium-dependent or endothelium-independent microvascular responses between groups. FMD increased by 1.5% following two weeks of BRJ (p = 0.04), with only a minimal (0.1%) change for the PLA group. In conclusion, this pilot study demonstrated that medium-term BRJ ingestion potentially improves SBP, DBP and large-vessel EF in healthy older adults. The improvements observed in the present study are likely to be greater in populations presenting with endothelial dysfunction. Thus, further prospective studies are warranted in individuals at greater risk for cardiovascular disease.
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- Tomos Jones
- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales LL57 2PZ, UK.
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- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales LL57 2PZ, UK
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- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales LL57 2PZ, UK
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- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales LL57 2PZ, UK
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- School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia
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- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales LL57 2PZ, UK
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de Vries CJ, DeLorey DS. Effect of acute dietary nitrate supplementation on sympathetic vasoconstriction at rest and during exercise. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2019; 127:81-88. [PMID: 31095461 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01053.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Dietary nitrate ( NO3- ) supplementation has been shown to reduce resting blood pressure. However, the mechanism responsible for the reduction in blood pressure has not been identified. Dietary NO3- supplementation may increase nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability, and NO has been shown to inhibit sympathetic vasoconstriction in resting and contracting skeletal muscle. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that acute dietary NO3- supplementation would attenuate sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness at rest and during exercise. In a double-blind randomized crossover design, 12 men (23 ± 5 yr) performed a cold-pressor test (CPT) at rest and during moderate- and heavy-intensity alternate-leg knee-extension exercise after consumption of NO3- rich beetroot juice (~12.9 mmol NO3- ) or a NO3- -depleted placebo (~0.13 mmol NO3- ). Venous blood was sampled before and 2.5 h after the consumption of beetroot juice for the measurement of total plasma nitrite/ NO3- [NOx]. Beat-by-beat blood pressure was measured by Finometer. Leg blood flow was measured at the femoral artery via Doppler ultrasound, and leg vascular conductance (LVC) was calculated. Sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness was calculated as the percentage decrease in LVC in response to the CPT. Total plasma [NOx] was greater (P < 0.001) in the NO3- (285 ± 120 µM) compared with the placebo (65 ± 30 µM) condition. However, mean arterial blood pressure and plasma catecholamines were not different (P > 0.05) between NO3- and placebo conditions at rest or during moderate- and heavy-intensity exercise. Sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness (Δ% LVC) was not different (P > 0.05) between NO3- and placebo conditions at rest ( NO3- : -33 ± 10%; placebo: -35 ± 11%) or during moderate ( NO3- : -18 ± 8%; placebo: -20 ± 10%)- and heavy ( NO3- : -12 ± 8%; placebo: -11 ± 9%)-intensity exercise. These data demonstrate that acute dietary NO3- supplementation does not alter sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness at rest or during exercise in young healthy males. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Dietary nitrate may increase nitric oxide bioavailability, and nitric oxide has been shown to attenuate sympathetic vasoconstriction in resting and contracting skeletal muscle and enhance functional sympatholysis. However, the effect of dietary nitrate on sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness is unknown. Acute dietary nitrate supplementation did not alter blood pressure or sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness at rest or during exercise in young healthy males.
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- Christopher J de Vries
- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta , Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta , Canada
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NADPH oxidase is a primary target for antioxidant effects by inorganic nitrite in lipopolysaccharide-induced oxidative stress in mice and in macrophage cells. Nitric Oxide 2019; 89:46-53. [PMID: 31063820 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2019.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2018] [Revised: 03/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase and oxidative stress is usually considered as an important factor to the pathogenesis of various diseases. Inorganic nitrite, previously viewed as a harmful substance in our diet or inert metabolites of endogenous NO, is recently identified as an important biological NO reservoir in vasculature and tissues. Stimulation of a nitrite-NO pathway shows organ-protective effects on oxidative stress and inflammation, but the mechanisms or target are not clear. In this study, the hypothesis that inorganic nitrite attenuated lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced oxidative stress in mice and in macrophage cells by modulating NADPH oxidase activity and NO bioavailability were investigated. We showed that nitrite treatment, in sharp contrast with the worsening effect of NO synthases inhibition, significantly attenuated aortic oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction and mortality in LPS-induced shock in mice. Mechanistically, protective effects of nitrite were abolished by NO scavenger and xanthine oxidase inhibitor, and inhibition of NADPH oxidase with apocynin attenuated LPS-induced oxidative stress similar to that of nitrite. In the presence of nitrite, no further effect of apocynin was observed, suggesting NADPH oxidase as a possible target. In LPS-activated macrophage cells, nitrite reduced NADPH oxidase activity and oxidative stress and these effects of nitrite were also abolished by NO scavenger and xanthine oxidase inhibitor, where xanthine oxidase-mediated reduction of nitrite attenuated NADPH oxidase activity in activated macrophages via a NO-dependent mechanism. In conclusion, these novel findings position NADPH oxidase in the inflammatory vasculature as a prime target for the antioxidant effects of inorganic nitrite, and open a new direction to modulate the inflammatory response.
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Tejero J, Shiva S, Gladwin MT. Sources of Vascular Nitric Oxide and Reactive Oxygen Species and Their Regulation. Physiol Rev 2019; 99:311-379. [PMID: 30379623 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00036.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 280] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a small free radical with critical signaling roles in physiology and pathophysiology. The generation of sufficient NO levels to regulate the resistance of the blood vessels and hence the maintenance of adequate blood flow is critical to the healthy performance of the vasculature. A novel paradigm indicates that classical NO synthesis by dedicated NO synthases is supplemented by nitrite reduction pathways under hypoxia. At the same time, reactive oxygen species (ROS), which include superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, are produced in the vascular system for signaling purposes, as effectors of the immune response, or as byproducts of cellular metabolism. NO and ROS can be generated by distinct enzymes or by the same enzyme through alternate reduction and oxidation processes. The latter oxidoreductase systems include NO synthases, molybdopterin enzymes, and hemoglobins, which can form superoxide by reduction of molecular oxygen or NO by reduction of inorganic nitrite. Enzymatic uncoupling, changes in oxygen tension, and the concentration of coenzymes and reductants can modulate the NO/ROS production from these oxidoreductases and determine the redox balance in health and disease. The dysregulation of the mechanisms involved in the generation of NO and ROS is an important cause of cardiovascular disease and target for therapy. In this review we will present the biology of NO and ROS in the cardiovascular system, with special emphasis on their routes of formation and regulation, as well as the therapeutic challenges and opportunities for the management of NO and ROS in cardiovascular disease.
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- Jesús Tejero
- Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; and Department of Medicine, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; and Department of Medicine, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; and Department of Medicine, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Oliveira-Paula GH, Pinheiro LC, Tanus-Santos JE. Mechanisms impairing blood pressure responses to nitrite and nitrate. Nitric Oxide 2019; 85:35-43. [PMID: 30716418 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2019.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Revised: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Hypertension is a multifactorial disease associated with impaired nitric oxide (NO) production and bioavailability. In this respect, restoring NO activity by using nitrite and nitrate has been considered a potential therapeutic strategy to treat hypertension. This possibility is justified by the understanding that both nitrite and nitrate may be recycled back to NO and also promote the generation of other bioactive species. This process involves a complex biological circuit known as the enterosalivary cycle of nitrate, where this anion is actively taken up by the salivary glands and converted to nitrite by nitrate-reducing bacteria in the oral cavity. Nitrite is then ingested and reduced to NO and other nitroso species under the acid conditions of the stomach, whereas reminiscent nitrite that escapes gastric reduction is absorbed systemically and can be converted into NO by nitrite-reductases in tissues. While there is no doubt that nitrite and nitrate exert antihypertensive effects, several agents can impair the blood pressure responses to these anions by disrupting the enterosalivary cycle of nitrate. These agents include dietary and smoking-derived thiocyanate, antiseptic mouthwash, proton pump inhibitors, ascorbate at high concentrations, and xanthine oxidoreductase inhibitors. In this article, we provide an overview of the physiological aspects of nitrite and nitrate bioactivation and the therapeutic potential of these anions in hypertension. We also discuss mechanisms by which agents counteracting the antihypertensive responses to nitrite and nitrate mediate their effects. These critical aspects should be taken into consideration when suggesting nitrate or nitrite-based therapies to patients.
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- Gustavo H Oliveira-Paula
- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil.
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Liddle L, Burleigh MC, Monaghan C, Muggeridge DJ, Sculthorpe N, Pedlar CR, Butcher J, Henriquez FL, Easton C. Variability in nitrate-reducing oral bacteria and nitric oxide metabolites in biological fluids following dietary nitrate administration: An assessment of the critical difference. Nitric Oxide 2019; 83:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2018.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Oliveira-Paula GH, Tanus-Santos JE. Nitrite-stimulated Gastric Formation of S-nitrosothiols As An Antihypertensive Therapeutic Strategy. Curr Drug Targets 2019; 20:431-443. [DOI: 10.2174/1389450119666180816120816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Hypertension is usually associated with deficient nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability, and therefore stimulating NO activity is an important antihypertensive strategy. Recently, many studies have shown that both nitrite and nitrate anions are not simple products of NO metabolism and indeed may be reduced back to NO. While enzymes with nitrite-reductase activity capable of generating NO from nitrite may contribute to antihypertensive effects of nitrite, another mechanism involving the generation of NO-related species in the stomach from nitrite has been validated. Under the acidic conditions of the stomach, nitrite generates NO-related species that form S-nitrosothiols. Conversely, drugs that increase gastric pH may impair the gastric formation of S-nitrosothiols, which may mediate antihypertensive effects of oral nitrite or nitrate. Therefore, it is now becoming clear that promoting gastric formation of S-nitrosothiols may result in effective antihypertensive responses, and this mechanism opens a window of opportunity in the therapy of hypertension. In this review, we discuss the recent studies supporting the gastric generation of S-nitrosothiols as a potential antihypertensive mechanism of oral nitrite. We also highlight some drugs that increase S-nitrosothiols bioavailability, which may also improve the responses to nitrite/nitrate therapy. This new approach may result in increased nitrosation of critical pharmacological receptors and enzymes involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension, which tend to respond less to their activators resulting in lower blood pressure.
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- Gustavo H. Oliveira-Paula
- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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Zafeiridis A, Triantafyllou A, Papadopoulos S, Koletsos N, Touplikioti P, Zafeiridis AS, Gkaliagkousi E, Dipla K, Douma S. Dietary nitrate improves muscle microvascular reactivity and lowers blood pressure at rest and during isometric exercise in untreated hypertensives. Microcirculation 2019; 26:e12525. [DOI: 10.1111/micc.12525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Andreas Zafeiridis
- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and BiochemistryDepartment of Physical Education and Sports Science at SerresAristotle University of Thessaloniki Serres Greece
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- Third Department of Internal MedicinePapageorgiou HospitalAristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and BiochemistryDepartment of Physical Education and Sports Science at SerresAristotle University of Thessaloniki Serres Greece
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- Third Department of Internal MedicinePapageorgiou HospitalAristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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- Third Department of Internal MedicinePapageorgiou HospitalAristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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- Third Department of Internal MedicinePapageorgiou HospitalAristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and BiochemistryDepartment of Physical Education and Sports Science at SerresAristotle University of Thessaloniki Serres Greece
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- Third Department of Internal MedicinePapageorgiou HospitalAristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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Rizzi E, Amaral JH, Guimarães DA, Conde-Tella SO, Pinheiro LC, Gerlach RF, Castro MM, Tanus-Santos JE. Nitrite treatment downregulates vascular MMP-2 activity and inhibits vascular remodeling in hypertension independently of its antihypertensive effects. Free Radic Biol Med 2019; 130:234-243. [PMID: 30399409 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Revised: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Hypertension is associated with cardiovascular remodeling. Given that impaired redox state activates matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)- 2 and promotes vascular remodeling, we hypothesized that nitrite treatment at a non-antihypertensive dose exerts antioxidant effects and attenuates both MMP-2 activation and vascular remodeling of hypertension. We examined the effects of oral sodium nitrite at antihypertensive (15 mg/kg) or non-antihypertensive (1 mg/kg) daily dose in hypertensive rats (two kidney, one clip; 2K1C model). Sham-operated and 2K1C hypertensive rats received vehicle or nitrite by gavage for four weeks. Systolic blood pressure decreased only in hypertensive rats treated with nitrite 15 mg/Kg/day. Both low and high nitrite doses decreased 2K1C-induced vascular remodeling assessed by measuring aortic cross-sectional area, media/lumen ratio, and number of vascular smooth muscle cells/aortic length. Both low and high nitrite doses decreased 2K1C-induced vascular oxidative stress assessed in situ with the fluorescent dye DHE and with the lucigenin chemiluminescence assay. Vascular MMP-2 expression and activity were assessed by gel zymography, Western blot, and in situ zymography increased with hypertension. While MMP-2 levels did not change in response to both doses of nitrite, both doses completely prevented hypertension-induced increases in vascular MMP activity. Moreover, incubation of aortas from hypertensive rats with nitrite at 1-20 μmol/L reduced gelatinolytic activity by 20-30%. This effect was fully inhibited by the xanthine oxidase (XOR) inhibitor febuxostat, suggesting XOR-mediated generation of nitric oxide (NO) from nitrite as a mechanism explaining the responses to nitrite. In vitro incubation of aortic extracts with nitrite 20 μmol/L did not affect MMP-2 activity. These results show that nitrite reverses the vascular structural alterations of hypertension, independently of anti-hypertensive effects. This response is mediated, at least in part, by XOR and is attributable to antioxidant effects of nitrite blunting vascular MMP-2 activation. Our findings suggest nitrite therapy to reverse structural alterations of hypertension.
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- Elen Rizzi
- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil; Biotechnology Unit, Ribeirao Preto University, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Morphology, Estomatology and Physiology, Dental School of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirao Preto, SP 14049-900, Brazil.
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Wang L, Almeida LEF, Kamimura S, van der Meulen JH, Nagaraju K, Quezado M, Wakim P, Quezado ZMN. The role of nitrite in muscle function, susceptibility to contraction injury, and fatigability in sickle cell mice. Nitric Oxide 2018; 80:70-81. [PMID: 30114530 PMCID: PMC6186197 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2018.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients can have limited exercise capacity and muscle dysfunction characterized by decreased force, atrophy, microvascular abnormalities, fiber distribution changes, and skeletal muscle energetics abnormalities. Growing evidence suggests that in SCD there is alteration in nitric oxide (NO) availability/signaling and that nitrate/nitrite can serve as a NO reservoir and enhance muscle performance. Here, we examined effects of nitrite on muscle strength, exercise capacity, and on contractile properties of fast-(extensor digitorum longus, EDL) and slow-twitch (soleus) muscles in SCD mice. Compared to controls, homozygotes (sickling) had decreased grip strength, impaired wheel running performance, and decreased muscle mass of fast-twitch, but not slow-twitch muscle. Nitrite treatment yielded increases in nitrite plasma levels in controls, heterozygotes, and homozygotes but decreases in muscle nitrite levels in heterozygotes and homozygotes. Regardless of genotype, nitrite yielded increases in grip strength, which were coupled with increases in specific force in EDL, but not in soleus muscle. Further, nitrite increased EDL, but not soleus, fatigability in all genotypes. Conversely, in controls, nitrite decreased, whereas in homozygotes, it increased EDL susceptibility to contraction-induced injury. Interestingly, nitrite yielded no changes in distances ran on the running wheel. These differential effects of nitrite in fast- and slow-twitch muscles suggest that its ergogenic effects would be observed in high-intensity/short exercises as found with grip force increases but no changes on wheel running distances. Further, the differential effects of nitrite in homozygotes and control animals suggests that sickling mice, which have altered NO availability/signaling, handle nitrite differently than do control animals.
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- Li Wang
- The Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's Research Institute, Washington, DC, 20010, USA
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- Department of Perioperative Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Perioperative Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Health System, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, 20010, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Health System, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, 20010, USA
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- Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Perioperative Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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Liu BX, Sun W, Kong XQ. Perirenal Fat: A Unique Fat Pad and Potential Target for Cardiovascular Disease. Angiology 2018; 70:584-593. [PMID: 30301366 DOI: 10.1177/0003319718799967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Although visceral obesity is recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the efficacy of omental fat removal in CVD treatment is still controversial. There is a need to identify other visceral fat depots for CVD management. This review aims to provide a summary on perirenal fat as an important risk factor for CVD. Studies on epidemiology, anatomy, and function of perirenal fat were reviewed. Observational studies in humans suggest that excessive perirenal fat increases the risk of hypertension and coronary heart disease. Anatomy studies prove that perirenal fat is unique compared to other connective tissues in that it is well vascularized, innervated, and drains into the lymphatic system. Other special morphological features include a complete fascia border, sympathetic-independent development of architecture, and proximity to the kidneys. Based on these anatomical features, perirenal fat regulates the cardiovascular system presumably via neural reflex, adipokine secretion, and fat-kidney interaction. These new insights suggest that perirenal fat may constitute a promising target for CVD management.
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- Bo-Xun Liu
- 1 Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- 1 Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- 1 Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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Maia LB, Moura JJG. Putting xanthine oxidoreductase and aldehyde oxidase on the NO metabolism map: Nitrite reduction by molybdoenzymes. Redox Biol 2018; 19:274-289. [PMID: 30196191 PMCID: PMC6129670 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2018.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2018] [Revised: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Nitric oxide radical (NO) is a signaling molecule involved in several physiological and pathological processes and a new nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway has emerged as a physiological alternative to the "classic" pathway of NO formation from L-arginine. Since the late 1990s, it has become clear that nitrite can be reduced back to NO under hypoxic/anoxic conditions and exert a significant cytoprotective action in vivo under challenging conditions. To reduce nitrite to NO, mammalian cells can use different metalloproteins that are present in cells to perform other functions, including several heme proteins and molybdoenzymes, comprising what we denominated as the "non-dedicated nitrite reductases". Herein, we will review the current knowledge on two of those "non-dedicated nitrite reductases", the molybdoenzymes xanthine oxidoreductase and aldehyde oxidase, discussing the in vitro and in vivo studies to provide the current picture of the role of these enzymes on the NO metabolism in humans.
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- Luisa B Maia
- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Rosenbaek JB, Pedersen EB, Bech JN. The effect of sodium nitrite infusion on renal function, brachial and central blood pressure during enzyme inhibition by allopurinol, enalapril or acetazolamide in healthy subjects: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover study. BMC Nephrol 2018; 19:244. [PMID: 30241504 PMCID: PMC6150994 DOI: 10.1186/s12882-018-1035-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background Sodium nitrite (NaNO2) causes vasodilation, presumably by enzymatic conversion to nitric oxide (NO). Several enzymes with nitrite reducing capabilities have been discovered in vitro, but their relative importance in vivo has not been investigated. We aimed to examine the effects of NaNO2 on blood pressure, fractional sodium excretion (FENa), free water clearance (CH2O) and GFR, after pre-inhibition of xanthine oxidase, carbonic anhydrase, and angiotensin-converting enzyme. The latter as an approach to upregulate endothelial NO synthase activity. Methods In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover study, 16 healthy subjects were treated, in a randomized order, with placebo, allopurinol 150 mg twice daily (TD), enalapril 5 mg TD, or acetazolamide 250 mg TD. After 4 days of treatment and standardized diet, the subjects were examined at our lab. During intravenous infusion of 240 μg NaNO2/kg/hour for 2 h, we measured changes in brachial and central blood pressure (BP), plasma cyclic guanosine monophosphate (P-cGMP), plasma and urine osmolality, GFR by 51Cr-EDTA clearance, FENa and urinary excretion rate of cGMP (U-cGMP) and nitrite and nitrate (U-NOx). Subjects were supine and orally water-loaded throughout the examination day. Results Irrespective of pretreatment, we observed an increase in FENa, heart rate, U-NOx, and a decrease in CH2O and brachial systolic BP during NaNO2 infusion. P-cGMP and U-cGMP did not change during infusion. We observed a consistent trend towards a reduction in central systolic BP, which was only significant after allopurinol. Conclusion This study showed a robust BP lowering, natriuretic and anti-aquaretic effect of intravenous NaNO2 regardless of preceding enzyme inhibition. None of the three enzyme inhibitors used convincingly modified the pharmacological effects of NaNO2. The steady cGMP indicates little or no conversion of nitrite to NO. Thus the effect of NaNO2 may not be mediated by NO generation. Trial registration EU Clinical Trials Register, 2013-003404-39. Registered December 3 2013.
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- Jeppe B Rosenbaek
- University Clinic in Nephrology and Hypertension, Regional Hospital West Jutland and Aarhus University, Laegaardvej 12J, DK-7500, Holstebro, Denmark.
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- University Clinic in Nephrology and Hypertension, Regional Hospital West Jutland and Aarhus University, Laegaardvej 12J, DK-7500, Holstebro, Denmark
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- University Clinic in Nephrology and Hypertension, Regional Hospital West Jutland and Aarhus University, Laegaardvej 12J, DK-7500, Holstebro, Denmark
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Witte J, Mühlbauer M, Braun D, Steinbach A, Golchert J, Rettig R, Grisk O. Renal Soluble Guanylate Cyclase Is Downregulated in Sunitinib-Induced Hypertension. J Am Heart Assoc 2018; 7:e009557. [PMID: 30371202 PMCID: PMC6222942 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.118.009557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Background The tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib causes hypertension associated with reduced nitric oxide (NO) availability, elevated renal vascular resistance, and decreased fractional sodium excretion. We tested whether (1) nitrate supplementation mitigates sunitinib‐induced hypertension and NO contributes less to renal vascular resistance as well as fractional sodium excretion regulation in sunitinib‐treated rats than in controls; and (2) renal soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) is downregulated and sGC activation lowers arterial pressure in rats with sunitinib‐induced hypertension. Methods and Results Arterial pressure responses to nitrate supplementation and the effects of systemic and intrarenal NO synthase (NOS) inhibition on renal hemodynamics and fractional sodium excretion were assessed in sunitinib‐treated rats and controls. Renal NOS and sGC mRNA as well as protein abundances were determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction and Western blot. The effect of the sGC activator cinaciguat on arterial pressure was investigated in sunitinib‐treated rats. Nitrate supplementation did not mitigate sunitinib‐induced hypertension. Endothelium‐dependent reductions in renal vascular resistance were similar in control and sunitinib‐treated animals without and with systemic NOS inhibition. Selective intrarenal NOS inhibition lowered renal medullary blood flow in control but not in sunitinib‐treated rats without significant effects on fractional sodium excretion. Renal cortical sGC mRNA and sGC α1‐subunit protein abundance were less in sunitinib‐treated rats than in controls, and cinaciguat effectively lowered arterial pressure by 15‐20 mm Hg in sunitinib‐treated rats. Conclusions Renal cortical sGC is downregulated in the presence of intact endothelium‐dependent renal vascular resistance regulation in developing sunitinib‐induced hypertension. This suggests that sGC downregulation occurs outside the renal vasculature, increases renal sodium retention, and contributes to nitrate resistance of sunitinib‐induced hypertension.
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- Jeannine Witte
- 1 Institute of Physiology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- 1 Institute of Physiology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- 1 Institute of Physiology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- 1 Institute of Physiology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- 2 Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- 1 Institute of Physiology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- 1 Institute of Physiology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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Tropea T, Wareing M, Greenwood SL, Feelisch M, Sibley CP, Cottrell EC. Nitrite mediated vasorelaxation in human chorionic plate vessels is enhanced by hypoxia and dependent on the NO-sGC-cGMP pathway. Nitric Oxide 2018; 80:82-88. [PMID: 30179715 PMCID: PMC6199414 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Adequate perfusion of the placental vasculature is essential to meet the metabolic demands of fetal growth and development. Lacking neural control, local tissue metabolites, circulating and physical factors contribute significantly to blood flow regulation. Nitric oxide (NO) is a key regulator of fetoplacental vascular tone. Nitrite, previously considered an inert end-product of NO oxidation, has been shown to provide an important source of NO. Reduction of nitrite to NO may be particularly relevant in tissue when the oxygen-dependent NO synthase (NOS) activity is compromised, e.g. in hypoxia. The contribution of this pathway in the placenta is currently unknown. We hypothesised that nitrite vasodilates human placental blood vessels, with enhanced efficacy under hypoxia. Placentas were collected from uncomplicated pregnancies and the vasorelaxant effect of nitrite (10-6-5x10-3 M) was assessed using wire myography on isolated pre-constricted chorionic plate arteries (CPAs) and veins (CPVs) under normoxic (pO2 ∼5%) and hypoxic (pO2 ∼1%) conditions. The dependency on the NO-sGC-cGMP pathway and known nitrite reductase (NiR) activities was also investigated. Nitrite caused concentration-dependent vasorelaxation in both arteries and veins, and this effect was enhanced by hypoxia, significantly in CPVs (P < 0.01) and with a trend in CPAs (P = 0.054). Pre-incubation with NO scavengers (cPTIO and oxyhemoglobin) attenuated (P < 0.01 and P < 0.0001, respectively), and the sGC inhibitor ODQ completely abolished nitrite-mediated vasorelaxation, confirming the involvement of NO and sGC. Inhibition of potential NiR enzymes xanthine oxidoreductase, mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase and mitochondrial bc1 complex did not attenuate vasorelaxation. This data suggests that nitrite may provide an important reservoir of NO bioactivity within the placenta to enhance blood flow when fetoplacental oxygenation is impaired, as occurring in pregnancy diseases such as pre-eclampsia and fetal growth restriction.
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- Teresa Tropea
- Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
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- Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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Effects of dietary nitrate supplementation, from beetroot juice, on blood pressure in hypertensive pregnant women: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled feasibility trial. Nitric Oxide 2018; 80:37-44. [PMID: 30099096 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chronic hypertension in pregnancy is associated with significant adverse pregnancy outcomes, increasing the risk of pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction and preterm birth. Dietary nitrate, abundant in green leafy vegetables and beetroot, is reduced in vivo to nitrite and subsequently nitric oxide, and has been demonstrated to lower blood pressure, improve vascular compliance and enhance blood flow in non-pregnant humans and animals. The primary aims of this study were to determine the acceptability and efficacy of dietary nitrate supplementation, in the form of beetroot juice, to lower blood pressure in hypertensive pregnant women. In this double-blind, placebo-controlled feasibility trial, 40 pregnant women received either daily nitrate supplementation (70 mL beetroot juice, n = 20) or placebo (70 mL nitrate-depleted beetroot juice, n = 20) for 8 days. Blood pressure, cardiovascular function and uteroplacental blood flow was assessed at baseline and following acute (3 h) and prolonged (8 days) supplementation. Plasma and salivary samples were collected for analysis of nitrate and nitrite concentrations and acceptability of this dietary intervention was assessed based on questionnaire feedback. Dietary nitrate significantly increased plasma and salivary nitrate/nitrite concentrations compared with placebo juice (p < 0.001), with marked variation between women. Compared with placebo, there was no overall reduction in blood pressure in the nitrate-treated group; however there was a highly significant correlation between changes in plasma nitrite concentrations and changes in diastolic blood pressure in the nitrate-treated arm only (r = -0.6481; p = 0.0042). Beetroot juice supplementation was an acceptable dietary intervention to 97% of women. This trial confirms acceptability and potential efficacy of dietary nitrate supplementation in pregnant women. Conversion of nitrate to nitrite critically involves oral bacterial nitrate reductase activities. We speculate that differences in efficacy of nitrate supplementation relate to differences in the oral microbiome, which will be investigated in future studies.
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Does dietary nitrate say NO to cardiovascular ageing? Current evidence and implications for research. Proc Nutr Soc 2018; 77:112-123. [DOI: 10.1017/s0029665118000058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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CVD are characterised by a multi-factorial pathogenesis. Key pathogenetic steps in the development of CVD are the occurrence of endothelial dysfunction and formation of atherosclerotic lesions. Reduced nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability is a primary event in the initiation of the atherosclerotic cascade. NO is a free radical with multiple physiological functions including the regulation of vascular resistance, coagulation, immunity and oxidative metabolism. The synthesis of NO proceeds via two distinct pathways identified as enzymatic and non-enzymatic. The former involves the conversion of arginine into NO by the NO synthases, whilst the latter comprises a two-step reducing process converting inorganic nitrate $({\rm NO}_3^ - )$ into nitrite and subsequently NO.Inorganic ${\rm NO}_3^ - $ is present in water and food, particularly beetroot and green leafy vegetables. Several investigations have therefore used the non-enzymatic NO pathway as a target for nutritional supplementation (${\rm NO}_3^ - $ salts) or dietary interventions (high-${\rm NO}_3^ - $ foods) to increase NO bioavailability and impact on cardiovascular outcomes. Some studies have reported positive effects of dietary ${\rm NO}_3^ - $ on systolic blood pressure and endothelial function in patients with hypertension and chronic heart failure. Nevertheless, results have been inconsistent and the size of the effect appears to be declining in older individuals. Additionally, there is a paucity of studies for disorders such as diabetes, CHD and chronic kidney failure. Thus, whilst dietary ${\rm NO}_3^ - $ supplementation could represent an effective and viable strategy for the primary and secondary prevention of age-related cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, more large-scale, robust studies are awaited to confirm or refute this notion.
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Battelli MG, Bortolotti M, Polito L, Bolognesi A. The role of xanthine oxidoreductase and uric acid in metabolic syndrome. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2018; 1864:2557-2565. [PMID: 29733945 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2018.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Revised: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) could contribute to the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome through the oxidative stress and the inflammatory response induced by XOR-derived reactive oxygen species and uric acid. Hyperuricemia is strongly linked to hypertension, insulin resistance, obesity and hypertriglyceridemia. The serum level of XOR is correlated to triglyceride/high density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, fasting glycemia, fasting insulinemia and insulin resistance index. Increased activity of endothelium-linked XOR may promote hypertension. In addition, XOR is implicated in pre-adipocyte differentiation and adipogenesis. XOR and uric acid play a role in cell transformation and proliferation as well as in the progression and metastatic process. Collected evidences confirm the contribution of XOR and uric acid in metabolic syndrome. However, in some circumstances XOR and uric acid may have anti-oxidant protective outcomes. The dual-face role of both XOR and uric acid explains the contradictory results obtained with XOR inhibitors and suggests caution in their therapeutic use.
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- Maria Giulia Battelli
- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Via San Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Via San Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Via San Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Via San Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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Dietary nitrate lowers ambulatory blood pressure in treated, uncontrolled hypertension: a 7-d, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial. Br J Nutr 2018; 119:658-663. [DOI: 10.1017/s0007114518000144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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AbstractDietary nitrate has been shown to increase nitrate/nitrite levels and decrease blood pressure (BP) in multiple populations. There are few reports among hypertensives and these reports have provided conflicting evidence. We aimed to assess the effect of daily nitrate compared with placebo in subjects with uncontrolled hypertension (HTN). On day 0, hypertensives wore an ambulatory BP monitor (ABPM) for 24 h and blood was taken. Subjects were then randomised to 7-d nitrate-rich beetroot juice (NO3−) (12·9 mmol nitrate) followed by 7-d nitrate-depleted beetroot juice (0·5 mmol nitrate) or vice versa. ABPM and blood were assessed before and after both conditions. In all, twenty subjects with treated yet uncontrolled HTN entered and completed the trial (mean age=62·5 years, mean BMI=30·7 kg/m2). Baseline BP was 137/80 (sd7/7) mmHg. Dietary nitrate was well tolerated and resulted in significantly increased plasma nitrite (P=0·0004) and decreased 24-h systolic BP and diastolic BP compared with placebo (−8 mmHg;P=0·012 and −4 mmHg;P=0·018, respectively). Our results support the existing data suggesting an anti-hypertensive effect of dietary nitrate in treated yet uncontrolled hypertensives. Targeted dietary strategies appear promising contributors to BP control.
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Monaco CMF, Miotto PM, Huber JS, van Loon LJC, Simpson JA, Holloway GP. Sodium nitrate supplementation alters mitochondrial H 2O 2 emission but does not improve mitochondrial oxidative metabolism in the heart of healthy rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2018. [PMID: 29513565 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00275.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Supplementation with dietary inorganic nitrate ([Formula: see text]) is increasingly recognized to confer cardioprotective effects in both healthy and clinical populations. While the mechanism(s) remains ambiguous, in skeletal muscle oral consumption of NaNO3 has been shown to improve mitochondrial efficiency. Whether NaNO3 has similar effects on mitochondria within the heart is unknown. Therefore, we comprehensively investigated the effect of NaNO3 supplementation on in vivo left ventricular (LV) function and mitochondrial bioenergetics. Healthy male Sprague-Dawley rats were supplemented with NaNO3 (1 g/l) in their drinking water for 7 days. Echocardiography and invasive hemodynamics were used to assess LV morphology and function. Blood pressure (BP) was measured by tail-cuff and invasive hemodynamics. Mitochondrial bioenergetics were measured in LV isolated mitochondria and permeabilized muscle fibers by high-resolution respirometry and fluorometry. Nitrate decreased ( P < 0.05) BP, LV end-diastolic pressure, and maximal LV pressure. Rates of LV relaxation (when normalized to mean arterial pressure) tended ( P = 0.13) to be higher with nitrate supplementation. However, nitrate did not alter LV mitochondrial respiration, coupling efficiency, or oxygen affinity in isolated mitochondria or permeabilized muscle fibers. In contrast, nitrate increased ( P < 0.05) the propensity for mitochondrial H2O2 emission in the absence of changes in cellular redox state and decreased the sensitivity of mitochondria to ADP (apparent Km). These results add to the therapeutic potential of nitrate supplementation in cardiovascular diseases and suggest that nitrate may confer these beneficial effects via mitochondrial redox signaling.
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- Cynthia M F Monaco
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario , Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario , Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario , Canada
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Nutrition, and Toxicology, Research Institute Maastricht (NUTRIM), Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario , Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario , Canada
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Münzel T, Daiber A. Inorganic nitrite and nitrate in cardiovascular therapy: A better alternative to organic nitrates as nitric oxide donors? Vascul Pharmacol 2018; 102:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vph.2017.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Revised: 11/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Effects of sodium nitrite on renal function and blood pressure in hypertensive vs. healthy study participants. J Hypertens 2018; 36:666-679. [DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000001598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Woessner MN, McIlvenna LC, Ortiz de Zevallos J, Neil CJ, Allen JD. Dietary nitrate supplementation in cardiovascular health: an ergogenic aid or exercise therapeutic? Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2018; 314:H195-H212. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00414.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Oral consumption of inorganic nitrate, which is abundant in green leafy vegetables and roots, has been shown to increase circulating plasma nitrite concentration, which can be converted to nitric oxide in low oxygen conditions. The associated beneficial physiological effects include a reduction in blood pressure, modification of platelet aggregation, and increases in limb blood flow. There have been numerous studies of nitrate supplementation in healthy recreational and competitive athletes; however, the ergogenic benefits are currently unclear due to a variety of factors including small sample sizes, different dosing regimens, variable nitrate conversion rates, the heterogeneity of participants’ initial fitness levels, and the types of exercise tests used. In clinical populations, the study results seem more promising, particularly in patients with cardiovascular diseases who typically present with disruptions in the ability to transport oxygen from the atmosphere to working tissues and reduced exercise tolerance. Many of these disease-related, physiological maladaptations, including endothelial dysfunction, increased reactive oxygen species, reduced tissue perfusion, and muscle mitochondrial dysfunction, have been previously identified as potential targets for nitric oxide restorative effects. This review is the first of its kind to outline the current evidence for inorganic nitrate supplementation as a therapeutic intervention to restore exercise tolerance and improve quality of life in patients with cardiovascular diseases. We summarize the factors that appear to limit or maximize its effectiveness and present a case for why it may be more effective in patients with cardiovascular disease than as ergogenic aid in healthy populations.
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- Mary N. Woessner
- Clinical Exercise Science Research Program, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical Exercise Science Research Program, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical Exercise Science Research Program, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Clinical Exercise Science Research Program, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical Exercise Science Research Program, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Early interventional trials reported improvements in cardiac and exercise outcomes with inorganic nitrate ingestion. The current review aims to provide a brief update of recent evidence regarding ergogenic and cardiovascular effects of dietary nitrate and practical recommendations. RECENT FINDINGS Recent evidence has been inconsistent and questions remain regarding effective dose, duration, and source of nitrate and cohorts likely to benefit. Dietary nitrate may be most relevant to those with vascular/metabolic impairments, those engaging in short-term, intense exercise, deconditioned individuals, and those with a low dietary nitrate intake. SUMMARY The evidence for cardiovascular/exercise benefit is plausible but inconsistent. However, dietary nitrate, in contrast to pharmacological nitrate, has a high benefit-risk ratio. Although nitrate supplementation has grown in popularity, it is suggested that increased green vegetables consumption may provide similar/superior benefits to nitrate supplementation in a cheaper, safer, and potentially tastier context.
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- Conor P Kerley
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 5100 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Ste. 400, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Nutraceuticals are dietary components with pharmacologic properties that can be used to treat various disease states. There is growing interest among patients in the use of nutraceuticals for the management of hypertension; as such, it is important that clinicians are prepared to engage in meaningful discussions with their patients about these substances. Flavonoids, beetroot, garlic, and unsaturated fats have garnered significant attention for their blood pressure lowering properties. We review the clinical evidence and reported mechanisms of action for these substances in an attempt to offer a practical guide for clinicians to engage with patients who are highly motivated to seek out nutraceutical therapies to manage their hypertension.
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Impact of mitochondrial nitrite reductase on hemodynamics and myocardial contractility. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12092. [PMID: 28935964 PMCID: PMC5608763 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11531-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Inorganic nitrite (NO2−) can be reduced back to nitric oxide (NO) by several heme proteins called nitrite reductases (NR) which affect both the vascular tonus and hemodynamics. The objective of this study was to clarify the impact of several NRs on the regulation of hemodynamics, for which hemodynamic parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, peripheral resistance and myocardial contractility were characterized by pulse wave analysis. We have demonstrated that NO2− reduced to NO in RBCs predominantly influences the heart rate, while myoglobin (Mb) and mitochondria-derived NO regulates arterial stiffness, peripheral resistance and myocardial contractility. Using ex vivo on-line NO-detection, we showed that Mb is the strongest NR occurring in heart, which operates sufficiently only at very low oxygen levels. In contrast, mitochondrial NR operates under both hypoxia and normoxia. Additional experiments with cardiomyocytes suggested that only mitochondria-derived generation of NO regulates cGMP levels mediating the contractility of cardiomyocytes. Our data suggest that a network of NRs is involved in NO2− mediated regulation of hemodynamics. Oxygen tension and hematocrit define the activity of specific NRs.
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Schwarz K, Singh S, Parasuraman SK, Rudd A, Shepstone L, Feelisch M, Minnion M, Ahmad S, Madhani M, Horowitz J, Dawson DK, Frenneaux MP. Inorganic Nitrate in Angina Study: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial. J Am Heart Assoc 2017; 6:JAHA.117.006478. [PMID: 28887315 PMCID: PMC5634294 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.117.006478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Background In this double‐blind randomized placebo‐controlled crossover trial, we investigated whether oral sodium nitrate, when added to existing background medication, reduces exertional ischemia in patients with angina. Methods and Results Seventy patients with stable angina, positive electrocardiogram treadmill test, and either angiographic or functional test evidence of significant ischemic heart disease were randomized to receive oral treatment with either placebo or sodium nitrate (600 mg; 7 mmol) for 7 to 10 days, followed by a 2‐week washout period before crossing over to the other treatment (n=34 placebo‐nitrate, n=36 nitrate‐placebo). At baseline and at the end of each treatment, patients underwent modified Bruce electrocardiogram treadmill test, modified Seattle Questionnaire, and subgroups were investigated with dobutamine stress, echocardiogram, and blood tests. The primary outcome was time to 1 mm ST depression on electrocardiogram treadmill test. Compared with placebo, inorganic nitrate treatment tended to increase the primary outcome exercise time to 1 mm ST segment depression (645.6 [603.1, 688.0] seconds versus 661.2 [6183, 704.0] seconds, P=0.10) and significantly increased total exercise time (744.4 [702.4, 786.4] seconds versus 760.9 [719.5, 802.2] seconds, P=0.04; mean [95% confidence interval]). Nitrate treatment robustly increased plasma nitrate (18.3 [15.2, 21.5] versus 297.6 [218.4, 376.8] μmol/L, P<0.0001) and almost doubled circulating nitrite concentrations (346 [285, 405] versus 552 [398, 706] nmol/L, P=0.003; placebo versus nitrate treatment). Other secondary outcomes were not significantly altered by the intervention. Patients on antacid medication appeared to benefit less from nitrate supplementation. Conclusions Sodium nitrate treatment may confer a modest exercise capacity benefit in patients with chronic angina who are taking other background medication. Clinical Trial Registration URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/. Unique identifier: NCT02078921. EudraCT number: 2012‐000196‐17.
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- Konstantin Schwarz
- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Aston Medical Research Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Basil Hetzel Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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Tsuda K. Letter by Tsuda Regarding Article, "Association of Vegetable Nitrate Intake With Carotid Atherosclerosis and Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Women". Stroke 2017; 48:e304. [PMID: 28830972 DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.117.018571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Kazushi Tsuda
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research Center, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Osaka, Japan
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Veerabhadrappa P, Schutte AE. Blood Pressure With Nitrate Exposure: Back-to-Basics With Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Am J Hypertens 2017; 30:665-666. [PMID: 28430832 DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpx061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2017] [Accepted: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council: Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Erkens R, Suvorava T, Kramer CM, Diederich LD, Kelm M, Cortese-Krott MM. Modulation of Local and Systemic Heterocellular Communication by Mechanical Forces: A Role of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase. Antioxid Redox Signal 2017; 26:917-935. [PMID: 27927026 PMCID: PMC5455615 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2016.6904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In this review, we discuss the role of nitric oxide (NO) as a key physiological mechanotransducer modulating both local and systemic heterocellular communication and contributing to the integrated (patho)physiology of the cardiovascular system. A deeper understanding of mechanotransduction-mediated local and systemic nodes controlling heterocellular communication between the endothelium, blood cells, and other cell types (e.g., cardiomyocytes) may suggest novel therapeutic strategies for endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Recent Advances: Mechanical forces acting on mechanoreceptors on endothelial cells activate the endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) to produce NO. NO participates in (i) abluminal heterocellular communication, inducing vasorelaxation, and thereby regulating vascular tone and blood pressure; (ii) luminal heterocellular communication, inhibiting platelet aggregation, and controlling hemostasis; and (iii) systemic heterocellular communication, contributing to adaptive physiological processes in response to exercise and remote ischemic preconditioning. Interestingly, shear-induced eNOS-dependent activation of vascular heterocellular communication constitutes the molecular basis of all methods applied in the clinical routine for evaluation of endothelial function. Critical Issues and Future Directions: The integrated physiology of heterocellular communication is still not fully understood. Dedicated experimental models are needed to analyze messengers and mechanisms underpinning heterocellular communication in response to physical forces in the cardiovascular system (and elsewhere). Antioxid. Redox Signal. 26, 917-935.
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- Ralf Erkens
- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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Ling WC, Mustafa MR, Vanhoutte PM, Murugan DD. Chronic administration of sodium nitrite prevents hypertension and protects arterial endothelial function by reducing oxidative stress in angiotensin II-infused mice. Vascul Pharmacol 2017; 102:11-20. [PMID: 28552746 DOI: 10.1016/j.vph.2017.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Revised: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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AIM Endothelial dysfunction accompanied by an increase in oxidative stress is a key event leading to hypertension. As dietary nitrite has been reported to exert antihypertensive effect, the present study investigated whether chronic oral administration of sodium nitrite improves vascular function in conduit and resistance arteries of hypertensive animals with elevated oxidative stress. METHODS Sodium nitrite (50mg/L) was given to angiotensin II-infused hypertensive C57BL/6J (eight to ten weeks old) mice for two weeks in the drinking water. Arterial systolic blood pressure was measured using the tail-cuff method. Vascular responsiveness of isolated aortae and renal arteries was studied in wire myographs. The level of nitrite in the plasma and the cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) content in the arterial wall were determined using commercially available kits. The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the presence of proteins (nitrotyrosine, NOx-2 and NOx-4) involved in ROS generation were evaluated with dihydroethidium (DHE) fluorescence and by Western blotting, respectively. RESULTS Chronic administration of sodium nitrite for two weeks to mice with angiotensin II-induced hypertension decreased systolic arterial blood pressure, reversed endothelial dysfunction, increased plasma nitrite level as well as vascular cGMP content. In addition, sodium nitrite treatment also decreased the elevated nitrotyrosine and NOx-4 protein level in angiotensin II-infused hypertensive mice. CONCLUSIONS The present study demonstrates that chronic treatment of hypertensive mice with sodium nitrite improves impaired endothelium function in conduit and resistance vessels in addition to its antihypertensive effect, partly through inhibition of ROS production.
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- Wei Chih Ling
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Dietary nitrate is mainly obtained from vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables and beetroot. As a result of early research, dietary nitrate is currently viewed as a contaminant linked to increased risks of stomach cancer and methaemoglobinaemia. Consequently, nitrate levels are restricted in certain vegetables and in water supplies to ensure exposure levels remain below an acceptable daily intake of 3·7 mg/kg per d. The average nitrate intake in the UK is approximately 70 mg/d, although some population groups, such as vegetarians, may consume three times that amount. However, recent studies in the last decade suggest that dietary nitrate can significantly reduce systolic blood pressure via the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway. A small, downward shift in systolic blood pressure across the population could significantly reduce the incidence of hypertension and mortality from CVD such as stroke. Interestingly, vegetarians tend to have lower levels of blood pressure than omnivores and epidemiological studies suggest that vegetarians have lower risks of CVD. Recent evidence is mainly focused on the acute effects of dietary nitrate supplementation and there is a lack of data looking at the chronic effects of high nitrate consumption in humans. Nevertheless, due to potential health benefits, some authors are recommending that nitrate should be considered as a nutrient necessary for health, rather than as a contaminant which needs to be restricted. This review will discuss the emerging role of dietary nitrate in the control of blood pressure and whether there is sufficient evidence to state that nitrate is a 'new' nutrient.
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Kuhn V, Diederich L, Keller TCS, Kramer CM, Lückstädt W, Panknin C, Suvorava T, Isakson BE, Kelm M, Cortese-Krott MM. Red Blood Cell Function and Dysfunction: Redox Regulation, Nitric Oxide Metabolism, Anemia. Antioxid Redox Signal 2017; 26:718-742. [PMID: 27889956 PMCID: PMC5421513 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2016.6954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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SIGNIFICANCE Recent clinical evidence identified anemia to be correlated with severe complications of cardiovascular disease (CVD) such as bleeding, thromboembolic events, stroke, hypertension, arrhythmias, and inflammation, particularly in elderly patients. The underlying mechanisms of these complications are largely unidentified. Recent Advances: Previously, red blood cells (RBCs) were considered exclusively as transporters of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. More recent experimental evidence indicates that RBCs are important interorgan communication systems with additional functions, including participation in control of systemic nitric oxide metabolism, redox regulation, blood rheology, and viscosity. In this article, we aim to revise and discuss the potential impact of these noncanonical functions of RBCs and their dysfunction in the cardiovascular system and in anemia. CRITICAL ISSUES The mechanistic links between changes of RBC functional properties and cardiovascular complications related to anemia have not been untangled so far. FUTURE DIRECTIONS To allow a better understanding of the complications associated with anemia in CVD, basic and translational science studies should be focused on identifying the role of noncanonical functions of RBCs in the cardiovascular system and on defining intrinsic and/or systemic dysfunction of RBCs in anemia and its relationship to CVD both in animal models and clinical settings. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 26, 718-742.
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- Viktoria Kuhn
- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 2 Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine , Charlottesville, Virginia
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 2 Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine , Charlottesville, Virginia
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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- 1 Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pneumology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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Koch CD, Gladwin MT, Freeman BA, Lundberg JO, Weitzberg E, Morris A. Enterosalivary nitrate metabolism and the microbiome: Intersection of microbial metabolism, nitric oxide and diet in cardiac and pulmonary vascular health. Free Radic Biol Med 2017; 105:48-67. [PMID: 27989792 PMCID: PMC5401802 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 11/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Recent insights into the bioactivation and signaling actions of inorganic, dietary nitrate and nitrite now suggest a critical role for the microbiome in the development of cardiac and pulmonary vascular diseases. Once thought to be the inert, end-products of endothelial-derived nitric oxide (NO) heme-oxidation, nitrate and nitrite are now considered major sources of exogenous NO that exhibit enhanced vasoactive signaling activity under conditions of hypoxia and stress. The bioavailability of nitrate and nitrite depend on the enzymatic reduction of nitrate to nitrite by a unique set of bacterial nitrate reductase enzymes possessed by specific bacterial populations in the mammalian mouth and gut. The pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension (PH), obesity, hypertension and CVD are linked to defects in NO signaling, suggesting a role for commensal oral bacteria to shape the development of PH through the formation of nitrite, NO and other bioactive nitrogen oxides. Oral supplementation with inorganic nitrate or nitrate-containing foods exert pleiotropic, beneficial vascular effects in the setting of inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, ischemia-reperfusion injury and in pre-clinical models of PH, while traditional high-nitrate dietary patterns are associated with beneficial outcomes in hypertension, obesity and CVD. These observations highlight the potential of the microbiome in the development of novel nitrate- and nitrite-based therapeutics for PH, CVD and their risk factors.
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- Carl D Koch
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15261, USA
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- Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15261, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15261, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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Pinheiro LC, Tanus-Santos JE, Castro MM. The potential of stimulating nitric oxide formation in the treatment of hypertension. Expert Opin Ther Targets 2017; 21:543-556. [PMID: 28338370 DOI: 10.1080/14728222.2017.1310840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A major pathophysiological factor contributing to hypertension is reduced nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability. Strategies to address this pathophysiological mechanism could offer significant advantages. Areas covered: In this review we aimed at examining a variety of drugs (statins, beta-adrenergic receptor blockers, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II type-1 receptor blockers) used to treat hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, particularly with respect to their potential of increasing NO bioavailability and activity in the cardiovascular system. There is now evidence supporting the notion that many cardiovascular drugs activate NO signaling or enhance NO bioavailability as a contributing mechanism to their beneficial cardiovascular effects. Moreover, other drugs may attenuate NO inactivation by superoxide and other reactive oxygen species by exerting antioxidant effects. More recently, the NO oxidation products nitrite and nitrate have been acknowledged as sources of NO after recycling back to NO. Activation of the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway is an alternate pathway that may generate NO from both anions and exert antihypertensive effects. Expert opinion: In this review, we provide an overview of the possible mechanisms by which these drugs enhance NO bioavailability and help in the therapy of hypertension.
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- Lucas C Pinheiro
- a Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School , University of Sao Paulo , Ribeirao Preto , Brazil
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- a Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School , University of Sao Paulo , Ribeirao Preto , Brazil
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- a Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School , University of Sao Paulo , Ribeirao Preto , Brazil
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Helms CC, Liu X, Kim-Shapiro DB. Recent insights into nitrite signaling processes in blood. Biol Chem 2017; 398:319-329. [PMID: 27611767 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2016-0263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Nitrite was once thought to be inert in human physiology. However, research over the past few decades has established a link between nitrite and the production of nitric oxide (NO) that is potentiated under hypoxic and acidic conditions. Under this new role nitrite acts as a storage pool for bioavailable NO. The NO so produced is likely to play important roles in decreasing platelet activation, contributing to hypoxic vasodilation and minimizing blood-cell adhesion to endothelial cells. Researchers have proposed multiple mechanisms for nitrite reduction in the blood. However, NO production in blood must somehow overcome rapid scavenging by hemoglobin in order to be effective. Here we review the role of red blood cell hemoglobin in the reduction of nitrite and present recent research into mechanisms that may allow nitric oxide and other reactive nitrogen signaling species to escape the red blood cell.
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Antiinflammatory actions of inorganic nitrate stabilize the atherosclerotic plaque. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E550-E559. [PMID: 28057862 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613063114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Reduced bioavailable nitric oxide (NO) plays a key role in the enhanced leukocyte recruitment reflective of systemic inflammation thought to precede and underlie atherosclerotic plaque formation and instability. Recent evidence demonstrates that inorganic nitrate (NO3-) through sequential chemical reduction in vivo provides a source of NO that exerts beneficial effects upon the cardiovascular system, including reductions in inflammatory responses. We tested whether the antiinflammatory effects of inorganic nitrate might prove useful in ameliorating atherosclerotic disease in Apolipoprotein (Apo)E knockout (KO) mice. We show that dietary nitrate treatment, although having no effect upon total plaque area, caused a reduction in macrophage accumulation and an elevation in smooth muscle accumulation within atherosclerotic plaques of ApoE KO mice, suggesting plaque stabilization. We also show that in nitrate-fed mice there is reduced systemic leukocyte rolling and adherence, circulating neutrophil numbers, neutrophil CD11b expression, and myeloperoxidase activity compared with wild-type littermates. Moreover, we show in both the ApoE KO mice and using an acute model of inflammation that this effect upon neutrophils results in consequent reductions in inflammatory monocyte expression that is associated with elevations of the antiinflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-10. In summary, we demonstrate that inorganic nitrate suppresses acute and chronic inflammation by targeting neutrophil recruitment and that this effect, at least in part, results in consequent reductions in the inflammatory status of atheromatous plaque, and suggest that this effect may have clinical utility in the prophylaxis of inflammatory atherosclerotic disease.
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Kerley CP, Dolan E, Cormican L. Nitrate-rich beetroot juice selectively lowers ambulatory pressures and LDL cholesterol in uncontrolled but not controlled hypertension: a pilot study. Ir J Med Sci 2017; 186:895-902. [PMID: 28050806 DOI: 10.1007/s11845-016-1551-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 12/26/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dietary nitrate has been shown to increase nitrate/nitrite levels in multiple populations, with potential blood pressure lowering effects. However, there are few reports among hypertensives. AIMS We aimed to assess the effect of daily nitrate in subjects with controlled hypertension vs. uncontrolled hypertension. METHODS On day 0, hypertensives wore an ambulatory BP monitor (ABPM) for 24 h and fasting blood was taken. Subjects then consumed concentrated beetroot juice (12.9 mmol nitrate) for 14 consecutive days. On day 14 subjects consumed their last nitrate dose after fasting blood was drawn and again had an ABPM for 24 h. RESULTS According to baseline ABPM, 11 subjects had controlled BP while 8 had uncontrolled BP. There were similar, significant increases in serum nitrate/nitrite in both groups. We observed little change in BP variables among controlled hypertensives. However, there were reductions in BP variables in uncontrolled hypertensives where decreases in nighttime DBP (-6 ± 4.8 mmHg), arterial stiffness (-0.08 ± 0.03 ambulatory arterial stiffness index) and LDL (-0.36 ± 0.42 mmol/L) reached significance (p = 003, 0.05 and 0.046, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Our results support the existing data suggesting an anti-hypertensive effect of nitrate-containing beetroot juice, but only among those with uncontrolled hypertension.
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- C P Kerley
- Respiratory and Sleep Diagnostics Department, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland. .,School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. .,Acute Stroke Unit, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland.
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- Acute Stroke Unit, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland
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- Respiratory and Sleep Diagnostics Department, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland
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Montenegro MF, Sundqvist ML, Larsen FJ, Zhuge Z, Carlström M, Weitzberg E, Lundberg JO. Blood Pressure–Lowering Effect of Orally Ingested Nitrite Is Abolished by a Proton Pump Inhibitor. Hypertension 2017; 69:23-31. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.116.08081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Revised: 07/19/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Inorganic nitrate and nitrite from dietary and endogenous sources are metabolized to NO and other bioactive nitrogen oxides that affect blood pressure. The mechanisms for nitrite bioactivation are unclear, but recent studies in rodents suggest that gastric acidity may influence the systemic effects of this anion. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study, we tested the effects of a proton pump inhibitor on the acute cardiovascular effects of nitrite. Fifteen healthy nonsmoking, normotensive subjects, aged 19 to 39 years, were pretreated with placebo or esomeprazole (3×40 mg) before ingesting sodium nitrite (0.3 mg kg
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), followed by blood pressure monitoring. Nitrite reduced systolic blood pressure by a maximum of 6±1.3 mm Hg when taken after placebo, whereas pretreatment with esomeprazole blunted this effect. Peak plasma nitrite, nitrate, and nitroso species levels after nitrite ingestion were similar in both interventions. In 8 healthy volunteers, we then infused increasing doses of sodium nitrite (1, 10, and 30 nmol kg
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) intravenously. Interestingly, although plasma nitrite peaked at similar levels as with orally ingested nitrite (≈1.8 µmol/L), no changes in blood pressure were observed. In rodents, esomeprazole did not affect the blood pressure response to the NO donor, DEA NONOate, or vascular relaxation to nitroprusside and acetylcholine, demonstrating an intact downstream NO-signaling pathway. We conclude that the acute blood pressure–lowering effect of nitrite requires an acidic gastric environment. Future studies will reveal if the cardiovascular complications associated with the use of proton pump inhibitors are linked to interference with the nitrate–nitrite–NO pathway.
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- Marcelo F. Montenegro
- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (M.F.M., M.S., Z.Z., M.C., E.W., J.O.L.); and Åstrand Laboratory, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (F.J.L.)
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Dietary nitrate from beetroot juice selectively reduces central blood pressure in type 2 diabetes: the randomized, controlled VaSera trial. Proc Nutr Soc 2017. [DOI: 10.1017/s0029665117003706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Pinheiro LC, Ferreira GC, Amaral JH, Portella RL, Tella SDOC, Passos MA, Tanus-Santos JE. Oral nitrite circumvents antiseptic mouthwash-induced disruption of enterosalivary circuit of nitrate and promotes nitrosation and blood pressure lowering effect. Free Radic Biol Med 2016; 101:226-235. [PMID: 27769921 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The nitric oxide (NO•) metabolites nitrite and nitrate exert antihypertensive effects by mechanisms that involve gastric formation of S-nitrosothiols. However, while the use of antiseptic mouthwash (AM) is known to attenuate the responses to nitrate by disrupting its enterosalivary cycle, there is little information about whether AM attenuates the effects of orally administered nitrite. We hypothesized that the antihypertensive effects of orally administered nitrite would not be prevented by AM because, in contrast to oral nitrate, oral nitrite could promote S-nitrosothiols formation in the stomach without intereference by AM. Chronic effects of oral nitrite or nitrate were studied in two-kidney, one-clip (2K1C) hypertensive rats (and normotensive controls) treated with AM (or vehicle) once/day. We found that orally administered nitrite exerts antihypertensive effects that were not affected by AM. This finding contrasts with lack of antihypertensive responses to oral nitrate in 2K1C hypertensive rats treated with AM. Nitrite and nitrate treatments increased plasma nitrites, nitrates, and S-nitrosothiols concentrations. However, while treatment with AM attenuated the increases in plasma nitrite concentrations after both nitrite and nitrate treatments, AM attenuated the increases in S-nitrosothiols in nitrate-treated rats, but not in nitrite-treated rats. Moreover, AM attenuated vascular S-nitrosylation (detected by the SNO-RAC method) after nitrate, but not after nitrite treatment. Significant correlations were found between the hypotensive responses and S-nitrosothiols, and vascular S-nitrosylation levels. These results show for the first time that oral nitrite exerts antihypertensive effects notwithstanding the fact that antiseptic mouthwash disrupts the enterosalivary circulation of nitrate. Our results support a major role for S-nitrosothiols formation resulting in vascular S-nitrosylation as a key mechanism for the antihypertensive effects of both oral nitrite and nitrate.
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- Lucas C Pinheiro
- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil.
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Schwarz K, Singh S, Parasuraman SK, Bruce M, Shepstone L, Feelisch M, Minnion M, Ahmad S, Horowitz J, Dawson DK, Frenneaux MP. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial of sodium nitrate in patients with stable angina INAS. Future Cardiol 2016; 12:617-626. [PMID: 27730819 DOI: 10.2217/fca-2016-0026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In an aging western population, a significant number of patients continue to suffer from angina once all revascularization and optimal medical treatment options are exhausted. Under experimental conditions, oral supplementation with inorganic nitrate was shown to exhibit a blood pressure-lowering effect, and has also been shown to promote angiogenesis, improve endothelial dysfunction and mitochondrial efficiency in skeletal muscle. It is unknown whether similar changes occur in cardiac muscle. In the current study, we investigate whether oral sodium nitrate treatment will improve myocardial ischemia in patients with stable angina.
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- Konstantin Schwarz
- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Bob Champion Research & Education Building James Watson Road, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Bob Champion Research & Education Building James Watson Road, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK
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- Aston Medical Research Institute, Aston Medical School, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Bob Champion Research & Education Building James Watson Road, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK
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Chirinos JA, Zamani P. The Nitrate-Nitrite-NO Pathway and Its Implications for Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction. Curr Heart Fail Rep 2016; 13:47-59. [PMID: 26792295 DOI: 10.1007/s11897-016-0277-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The pathogenesis of exercise intolerance in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is likely multifactorial. In addition to cardiac abnormalities (diastolic dysfunction, abnormal contractile reserve, chronotropic incompetence), several peripheral abnormalities are likely to be involved. These include abnormal pulsatile hemodynamics, abnormal arterial vasodilatory responses to exercise, and abnormal peripheral O2 delivery, extraction, and utilization. The nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway is emerging as a potential target to modify key physiologic abnormalities, including late systolic left ventricular (LV) load from arterial wave reflections (which has deleterious short- and long-term consequences for the LV), arterial vasodilatory reserve, muscle O2 delivery, and skeletal muscle mitochondrial function. In a recently completed randomized trial, the administration of a single dose of exogenous inorganic nitrate has been shown to exert various salutary arterial hemodynamic effects, ultimately leading to enhanced aerobic capacity in patients with HFpEF. These effects have the potential for both immediate improvements in exercise tolerance and for long-term "disease-modifying" effects. In this review, we provide an overview of key mechanistic contributors to exercise intolerance in HFpEF, and of the potential therapeutic role of drugs that target the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway.
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- Julio A Chirinos
- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .,Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .,Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Peleli M, Zollbrecht C, Montenegro MF, Hezel M, Zhong J, Persson EG, Holmdahl R, Weitzberg E, Lundberg JO, Carlström M. Enhanced XOR activity in eNOS-deficient mice: Effects on the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway and ROS homeostasis. Free Radic Biol Med 2016; 99:472-484. [PMID: 27609225 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2016] [Revised: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is generally known as the final enzyme in purine metabolism and as a source of reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, this enzyme has been suggested to mediate nitric oxide (NO) formation via reduction of inorganic nitrate and nitrite. This NO synthase (NOS)-independent pathway for NO generation is of particular importance during certain conditions when NO bioavailability is diminished due to reduced activity of endothelial NOS (eNOS) or increased oxidative stress, including aging and cardiovascular disease. The exact interplay between NOS- and XOR-derived NO generation is not fully elucidated yet. The aim of the present study was to investigate if eNOS deficiency is associated with changes in XOR expression and activity and the possible impact on nitrite, NO and ROS homeostasis. Plasma levels of nitrate and nitrite were similar between eNOS deficient (eNOS-/-) and wildtype (wt) mice. XOR activity was upregulated in eNOS-/- compared with wt, but not in nNOS-/-, iNOS-/- or wt mice treated with the non-selective NOS inhibitor L-NAME. Following an acute dose of nitrate, plasma nitrite increased more in eNOS-/- compared with wt, and this augmented response was abolished by the selective XOR inhibitor febuxostat. Livers from eNOS-/- displayed higher nitrite reducing capacity compared with wt, and this effect was attenuated by febuxostat. Dietary supplementation with nitrate increased XOR expression and activity, but concomitantly reduced superoxide generation. The latter effect was also seen in vitro after nitrite administration. Treatment with febuxostat elevated blood pressure in eNOS-/-, but not in wt mice. A high dose of dietary nitrate reduced blood pressure in naïve eNOS-/- mice, and again this effect was abolished by febuxostat. In conclusion, eNOS deficiency is associated with an upregulation of XOR facilitating the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway and decreasing the generation of ROS. This interplay between XOR and eNOS is proposed to play a significant role in NO homeostasis and blood pressure regulation.
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- Maria Peleli
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Differential vascular reactivity responses acutely following ingestion of a nitrate rich red spinach extract. Eur J Appl Physiol 2016; 116:2267-2279. [DOI: 10.1007/s00421-016-3478-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/20/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zollbrecht C, Persson AEG, Lundberg JO, Weitzberg E, Carlström M. Nitrite-mediated reduction of macrophage NADPH oxidase activity is dependent on xanthine oxidoreductase-derived nitric oxide but independent of S-nitrosation. Redox Biol 2016; 10:119-127. [PMID: 27744114 PMCID: PMC5065649 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2016.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2016] [Revised: 09/23/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Inorganic nitrite has shown beneficial effects in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases partly via attenuation of NADPH-oxidase (NOX)-mediated oxidative stress. However, the exact mechanisms are still unclear. Here we investigated the role of S-nitrosation or altered expression of NOX subunits, and the role of xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) in nitrite-derived nitric oxide (NO) production. METHODS Mouse macrophages were activated with LPS in the presence or absence of nitrite. NOX activity was measured by lucigenin-dependent chemiluminescence. Gene and protein expression of NOX2 subunits and XOR were investigated using qPCR and Western Blot. S-nitrosation of Nox2 and p22phox was studied with a Biotin Switch assay. Uric acid levels in cell culture medium were analyzed as a measure of XOR activity, and NO production was assessed by DAF-FM fluorescence. RESULTS NOX activity in activated macrophages was significantly reduced by nitrite. Reduced NOX activity was not attributed to decreased NOX gene expression. However, protein levels of p47phox and p67phox subunits were reduced by nitrite in activated macrophages. Protein expression of Nox2 and p22phox was not influenced by this treatment and neither was their S-nitrosation status. Increased uric acid levels after nitrite and diminished NO production during XOR-inhibition with febuxostat suggest that XOR is more active during nitrite-treatment of activated macrophages and plays an important role in the bioactivation of nitrite. CONCLUSIONS Our findings contribute to the mechanistic understanding about the therapeutic effects associated with nitrite supplementation in many diseases. We show that nitrite-mediated inhibition of NOX activity cannot be explained by S-nitrosation of the NOX enzyme, but that changes in NOX2 expression and XOR function may contribute.
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- Christa Zollbrecht
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Hughes WE, Ueda K, Treichler DP, Casey DP. Effects of acute dietary nitrate supplementation on aortic blood pressure and aortic augmentation index in young and older adults. Nitric Oxide 2016; 59:21-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2016.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2016] [Revised: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Tawa M, Shimosato T, Iwasaki H, Imamura T, Okamura T. Effects of hydrogen peroxide on relaxation through the NO/sGC/cGMP pathway in isolated rat iliac arteries. Free Radic Res 2016; 49:1479-87. [PMID: 26334090 DOI: 10.3109/10715762.2015.1089987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The production of reactive oxygen species, including hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)), is increased in diseased blood vessels. Although H(2)O(2) leads to impairment of the nitric oxide (NO)/soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC)/cGMP signaling pathway, it is not clear whether this reactive molecule affects the redox state of sGC, a key determinant of NO bioavailability. To clarify this issue, mechanical responses of endothelium-denuded rat external iliac arteries to BAY 41-2272 (sGC stimulator), BAY 60-2770 (sGC activator), nitroglycerin (NO donor), acidified NaNO(2) (exogenous NO) and 8-Br-cGMP (cGMP analog) were studied under exposure to H(2)O(2). The relaxant response to BAY 41-2272 (pD2: 6.79 ± 0.10 and 6.62 ± 0.17), BAY 60-2770 (pD2: 9.57 ± 0.06 and 9.34 ± 0.15) or 8-Br-cGMP (pD2: 5.19 ± 0.06 and 5.24 ± 0.08) was not apparently affected by exposure to H(2)O(2). In addition, vascular cGMP production stimulated with BAY 41-2272 or BAY 60-2770 in the presence of H(2)O(2) was identical to that in its absence. On the other hand, nitroglycerin-induced relaxation was markedly attenuated by exposing the arteries to H(2)O(2) (pD2: 8.73 ± 0.05 and 8.30 ± 0.05), which was normalized in the presence of catalase (pD2: 8.59 ± 0.05). Likewise, H(2)O(2) exposure impaired the relaxant response to acidified NaNO(2) (pD2: 6.52 ± 0.17 and 6.09 ± 0.16). These findings suggest that H(2)O(2) interferes with the NO-mediated action, but the sGC redox equilibrium and the downstream target(s) of cGMP are unlikely to be affected in the vasculature.
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- Masashi Tawa
- a Department of Pharmacology , Shiga University of Medical Science , Otsu , Shiga , Japan
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- a Department of Pharmacology , Shiga University of Medical Science , Otsu , Shiga , Japan
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- a Department of Pharmacology , Shiga University of Medical Science , Otsu , Shiga , Japan
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- a Department of Pharmacology , Shiga University of Medical Science , Otsu , Shiga , Japan
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- a Department of Pharmacology , Shiga University of Medical Science , Otsu , Shiga , Japan
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