Impact of Dietary Nitrate on the Recovery of Therapy-related Vascular Health Impairments Following Standard Periodontal Aftercare Therapy: a Hypothesis-generating Subanalysis.

This follow-up study assessed the impact of a nitrate-rich diet on salivary nitrate/nitrite levels and the recovery of therapy-induced vascular impairments in a cohort of 39 periodontitis patients treated by standard subgingival mechanical plaque removal (PMPR). At baseline, saliva samples for nitrate/nitrite analysis were collected, and peripheral/central blood and augmentation pressure was documented using the Arteriograph recording system. Immediately after, PMPR vascular parameters were reassessed.

Nitrate-rich diet alters the composition of the oral microbiota in periodontal recall patients.

Background: This follow-up study evaluated microbiome changes in periodontal recall patients after consuming a nitrate-rich diet that led to a marked decrease of gingival inflammation.

Methods: Subgingival microbial samples of 37 patients suffering from gingival inflammation with reduced periodontium were taken before professional mechanical plaque removal (baseline) and subsequently after 2 weeks of regularly consuming a lettuce juice beverage (day 14) containing a daily dosage of 200 mg of nitrate (test group, n = 18) or being void of nitrate (placebo group, n = 19). Three hundred base pairs paired-end sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable region of the 16S rDNA was performed.

Phytic Acid Contents and Metabolite Profiles of Progenies from Crossing and Rice ( L.) Mutants.

The impact of cross-breeding two () rice mutants on the content of phytic acid and the metabolite profile of the resulting double mutant was investigated. Progenies resulting from the cross of -XS110-1, a rice mutant carrying the -inositol kinase () mutated gene, and -XS110-2, with the multidrug resistance-associated protein ABC transporter gene 5 () as the mutation target, were subjected to high-pressure ion chromatography. The reduction of the phytic acid content in the double mutant (-63%) was much more pronounced than in the single mutants (-26 and -47%).

Stability of the Metabolite Signature Resulting from the MIPS1 Mutation in Low Phytic Acid Soybean ( Glycine max L. Merr.) Mutants upon Cross-Breeding.

The low phytic acid ( lpa) soybean ( Glycine max L. Merr.) mutant Gm-lpa-TW-1-M, resulting from a 2 bp deletion in GmMIPS1, was crossed with a commercial cultivar.

Impact of Crossing Parent and Environment on the Metabolite Profiles of Progenies Generated from a Low Phytic Acid Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) Mutant.

The low phytic acid ( lpa) rice mutant Os-lpa-MH86-1, exhibiting a mutation-induced metabolite signature (i.e., increased levels of sugars, sugar alcohols, amino acids, phytosterols, and biogenic amines), was crossed with two commercial wild-type cultivars.