Overview
- Chapters in new edition are fully updated with information from the latest research findings
- New edition includes chapters on nitrite and nitrate and age medicine, hypertension, and exercise performance
- Evidence-based chapters with detailed citations
- Comprehensive coverage of nitrate and nitrite and human health, from a basic understanding of the biochemistry, to environmental factors, to therapeutic applications
- Each chapter begins with detailed key points summarizing the major topics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Metabolism and Physiology
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Front Matter
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Food and Environmental Exposures to Nitrite and Nitrate
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Nitrite and Nitrate in Therapeutics and Disease
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Keywords
About this book
This fully revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive look at nitrite and nitrate and their effect on human health and disease. The first section describes the biochemical analysis of nitrite and nitrate and its role in human physiology. The book then shifts to sources of human exposure of nitrite and nitrate, including environmental and dietary. Finally, the last section discusses nitric oxide-based therapeutics and how nitrite and nitrate biochemistry can be safely harnessed to improve human health. Each chapter provides a balanced, evidence-based view and heavily cites the most recent published literature. They follow a strict chapter format which includes keywords, key points, a conclusion highlighting major findings, and extensive references.
The second edition contains new chapters on nitrite and nitrate in age medicine, nitrite and nitrate as a treatment for hypertension, and nitrite and nitrate in exercise performance. Additionally, the editors have expanded the biochemistry section to include chapters on nitrate reducing oral bacteria, nitrite mediated S-Nitrosation, epigenetics and the regulation of nitric oxide, and nitrite control of mitochondrial function.
Nitrate and Nitrite in Human Health and Disease, 2e, will be of interest to health professionals, nutritionists, dieticians, biomedical scientists, and food scientists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Assistant Professor
Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine
Harvard Medical School;
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital;
President,
Brigham Medical Research and Education Foundation, Inc.,
Boston, MA, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nitrite and Nitrate in Human Health and Disease
Editors: Nathan S. Bryan, Joseph Loscalzo
Series Title: Nutrition and Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46189-2
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46187-8Published: 10 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83463-4Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46189-2Published: 31 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2628-197X
Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXI, 349
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Medical Biochemistry, Ecotoxicology