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Acute ingestion of beetroot juice increases exhaled nitric oxide in healthy individuals.

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Nitric oxide (NO) plays an important role in the airways' innate immune response, and the fraction of exhaled NO at a flow rate of 50mL per second (FENO50) has been utilized to capture NO. Deficits in NO are linked to loss of bronchoprotective effects in airway challenges and predict symptoms of respiratory infection. While beetroot juice supplements have been proposed to enhance exercise performance by increasing dietary nitrate consumption, few studies have examined the impact of beetroot juice or nitrate supplementation on airway NO in contexts beyond an exercise challenge, which we know influences FENO50.

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0
Journal
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PloS one
Volume
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13
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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e0191030
Date Published
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2018
URL
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http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191030
DOI
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10.1371/journal.pone.0191030
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PLoS One
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