Nitrite and Nitrate in Human Health and Disease

1. Introduction
Nathan S. Bryan, Joseph Loscalzo

2. From Atmospheric Nitrogen to Bioactive Nitrogen Oxides
Mark Gilchrist, Nigel Benjamin

3. The Nitrate–Nitrite–Nitric Oxide Pathway in Mammals
Jon O. Lundberg, Eddie Weitzberg, Sruti Shiva, Mark T. Gladwin

4. Sources of Exposure to Nitrogen Oxides
Andrew L. Milkowski

5. History of Nitrite and Nitrate in Food
Jimmy T. Keeton

6. Nutritional Epidemiology of Nitrogen Oxides: What do the Numbers Mean?
Martin Lajous, Walter Willett

7. Nutritional Impact on the Nitric Oxide Pathway
Wing Tak Wong, John P. Cooke

8. Dietary Flavonoids as Modulators of NO Bioavailability in Acute and Chronic Cardiovascular Diseases
Matthias Totzeck, Malte Kelm, Tienush Rassaf

9. Nitrite and Nitrate in Human Breast Milk: Implications for Development
Pamela D. Berens, Nathan S. Bryan

10. Regulation of Dietary Nitrate and Nitrite: Balancing Essential Physiological Roles with Potential Health Risks
Norman G. Hord

11. Nitric Oxide Signaling in Health and Disease
Nathan S. Bryan, Jack R. Lancaster

12. Inhaled Nitric Oxide
Kenneth D. Bloch, Andrea U. Steinbicker, Lisa K. Lohmeyer, Rajeev Malhotra

13. Pharmacology of Nitrovasodilators
Nathaniel A. Page, Ho-Leung Fung

14. Nitrite and Nitrate in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Madhav Lavu, Susheel Gundewar, David J. Lefer

15. The Nitrate–Nitrite–Nitric Oxide Pathway in Traditional Herbal Medicine for Heart Disease
Yong-Jian Geng

16. Nitrite and Nitrate in Cancer
David M. Klurfeld

17. Looking Forward
Nathan S. Bryan, Joseph Loscalzo

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Public Health/Gesundheitswesen, Food Science