Until recently the inorganic anions nitrate (NO 3 −) and nitrite (NO 2 −) were considered inert end products of nitric oxide (NO) metabolism and unfavorable dietary constituents.However, a new ...

This is a differential medium. It is used to determine if an organism is capable of reducing nitrate (NO 3-) to nitrite (NO 2-) or other nitrogenous compounds via the action of the enzyme nitratase ...

In humans, dietary nitrate (mostly from green leafy vegetables) is converted to nitrite in saliva, and to nitric oxide (NO) in the acidic stomach. Petersson and colleagues hypothesized that ...