The Essential Nutrients for Human Health: The Role of Nitrate and Nitrite in Nitric Oxide Homeostasis
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 255
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nitrate reductive pathway; mammalian nitrate reservoirs; nitric oxide; mammalian nitrate reductase; ageing; diabetes; degenerative eye diseases; cardiovascular disease; exercise; neuromuscular diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Homeostasis is a network of self-regulating processes that adjust internal conditions within tightly regulated physiological tolerance limits and allow for the survival of the organism in the wide range of the external environment. In mammals, maintaining nitric oxide (NO) homeostasis is crucial to sustain stable blood pressure. It is impossible to conserve the homeostasis of most other vital functions, such as T, blood sugar, CO2, pH, and other parameters, without a well-functioning blood flow.
This Special Issue aims to further explore the NO pathway, NO precursors and storage molecules, their turnover and accumulation in the body, and their connection to the L-Arg pathway. We also invite authors to express their views on NO as the principal “keeper” of mammalian homeostasis. We also welcome ideas on the role and interaction of endothelin with NO metabolism, since NO/endothelin govern blood flow in mammals.
Dr. Barbora Piknova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nitrite
- nitrate
- nitric oxide
- endothelin
- homeostasis
- blood flow
- diet
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