ReviewExercise and sport sciences reviews2018
Dietary Nitrate Enhances the Contractile Properties of Human Skeletal Muscle.
Review in Exercise and sport sciences reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 50 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
50 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Beetroot Juice on Physical Performance in Professional Athletes and Healthy Individuals: An Umbrella Review.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Dietary Nitrate Supplementation and Exercise Performance: An Umbrella Review of 20 Published Systematic Reviews with Meta-analyses.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
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- Does Beetroot Supplementation Improve Performance in Combat Sports Athletes? A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Explosive Exercise Performance: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of food sources of nitrate, polyphenols, L-arginine and L-citrulline on endurance exercise performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of dietary nitrate on human muscle power: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Dietary Nitrates on Time Trial Performance in Athletes with Different Training Status: Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Opposing Effects of Dietary Nitrate on Muscle Contractile Function in Fast and Slow Human Muscles.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2026Trial
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- Dietary nitrate and muscle contractile function in women: effect of menstrual cycle phase.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2026Trial
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- Pilot randomized trial of the effect of antibacterial mouthwash on muscle contractile function in healthy young adults.PloS one · 2025Trial
- The influence of sex on the effects of inorganic nitrate supplementation on muscular power and endurance.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024Trial
- Preworkout dietary nitrate magnifies training-induced benefits to physical function in late postmenopausal women: a randomized pilot study.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2024Trial
- Impact of a short-term nitrate and citrulline co-supplementation on sport performance in elite rowers: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
- Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Performance and Muscle Oxygenation during Resistance Exercise in Men.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Inorganic nitrate supplementation and blood flow restricted exercise tolerance in post-menopausal women.Nitric oxide : biology and chemistry · 2022Trial
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- Dose-Response Effect of Dietary Nitrate on Muscle Contractility and Blood Pressure in Older Subjects: A Pilot Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Trial
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Abstract
Dietary nitrate, a source of nitric oxide (NO), improves the contractile properties of human muscle. We present the hypothesis that this is due to nitrosylation of the ryanodine receptor and increased NO signaling via the soluble guanyl cyclase-cyclic guanosine monophosphate-protein kinase G pathway, which together increase the free intracellular Ca concentration along with the Ca sensitivity of the myofilaments themselves.
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