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Nitrite

About: Nitrite is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15425 publications have been published within this topic receiving 484581 citations.


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01 Jan 1970-Analyst
TL;DR: In this article, the AutoAnalyzer is used for determining nitrate and nitrite in fresh and sea water and in soil extracts with the help of a modified manual procedure by Wood, Armstrong and Richards, which consists in reduction of nitrate with copperised cadmium and, with the nitrite thus produced, diazotisation of sulphanilamide, the product being coupled with N-1-naphthylethylenediamine to form a highly coloured azo dye, which is measured at 520 nm.
Abstract: Automatic methods for determining nitrate and nitrite in fresh and sea water and in soil extracts with the AutoAnalyzer are described, together with details of the analytical systems. The methods are based on a modification of the manual procedure by Wood, Armstrong and Richards, which consists in reduction of nitrate with copperised cadmium and, with the nitrite thus produced, diazotisation of sulphanilamide, the product being coupled with N-1-naphthylethylenediamine to form a highly coloured azo dye, which is measured at 520 nm. The methods are capable of analysing twenty samples per hour.

551 citations

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TL;DR: This procedure, supplemented with deproteinization and reduction of nitrates to nitrites in the presence of NADPH-sensitive reductase, can be successfully applied for measurement of NOx levels in human body fluids (serum, urine and CSF).

548 citations

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TL;DR: These findings demonstrate dose-dependent decreases in blood pressure and vasoprotection after inorganic nitrate ingestion in the form of either supplementation or by dietary elevation and intimate sex differences in nitrate processing involving the entero-salivary circulation are likely to be major contributing factors to the lower blood pressures and the Vasoprotective phenotype of premenopausal women.
Abstract: Ingestion of dietary (inorganic) nitrate elevates circulating and tissue levels of nitrite via bioconversion in the entero-salivary circulation. In addition, nitrite is a potent vasodilator in humans, an effect thought to underlie the blood pressure-lowering effects of dietary nitrate (in the form of beetroot juice) ingestion. Whether inorganic nitrate underlies these effects and whether the effects of either naturally occurring dietary nitrate or inorganic nitrate supplementation are dose dependent remain uncertain. Using a randomized crossover study design, we show that nitrate supplementation (KNO(3) capsules: 4 versus 12 mmol [n=6] or 24 mmol of KNO(3) (1488 mg of nitrate) versus 24 mmol of KCl [n=20]) or vegetable intake (250 mL of beetroot juice [5.5 mmol nitrate] versus 250 mL of water [n=9]) causes dose-dependent elevation in plasma nitrite concentration and elevation of cGMP concentration with a consequent decrease in blood pressure in healthy volunteers. In addition, post hoc analysis demonstrates a sex difference in sensitivity to nitrate supplementation dependent on resting baseline blood pressure and plasma nitrite concentration, whereby blood pressure is decreased in male volunteers, with higher baseline blood pressure and lower plasma nitrite concentration but not in female volunteers. Our findings demonstrate dose-dependent decreases in blood pressure and vasoprotection after inorganic nitrate ingestion in the form of either supplementation or by dietary elevation. In addition, our post hoc analyses intimate sex differences in nitrate processing involving the entero-salivary circulation that are likely to be major contributing factors to the lower blood pressures and the vasoprotective phenotype of premenopausal women.

547 citations

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TL;DR: Findings are consistent with and strongly support an involvement of cyclic GMP formation in vascular smooth muscle relaxation elicited by nitrogen oxide-containing vasodilators.
Abstract: The purpose of the present study was to determine time course relationship between cyclic GMP accumulation and relaxation in bovine coronary artery and evaluate the effects of recently identified inhibitors, methylene blue and methemoglobin, on these relationships. Arterial strips were suspended in specially mounted tissue baths which permitted continuous recording of isometric tension until rapid freeze-clamping for subsequent determination of cyclic GMP levels by radioimmunoassay. Relaxation and cyclic GMP levels were measured in submaximally contracted strips at zero time (untreated) or 5-sec to 5-min intervals after exposure to 0.5 microliter of nitric oxide, 1 microM glyceryl trinitrate, 1 microM sodium nitroprusside of 1 mM sodium nitrite in the absence or presence of 10 mM methylene blue or 1 microM methemoglobin. Cyclic GMP accumulation preceded onset of relaxation elicited by nitric oxide and glyceryl trinitrate and temporally correlated with relaxation induced by sodium nitroprusside and sodium nitrite. Methylene blue simultaneously inhibited cyclic GMP accumulation and relaxation induced by all four relaxants. In contrast to methylene blue, methemoglobin abolished cyclic GMP accumulation and relaxation elicited by nitric oxide without altering responses to glyceryl trinitrate, sodium nitroprusside and sodium nitrite. These findings are consistent with and strongly support an involvement of cyclic GMP formation in vascular smooth muscle relaxation elicited by nitrogen oxide-containing vasodilators.

542 citations

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TL;DR: The latest advances in the understanding of the biochemistry, physiology and therapeutics of nitrate, nitrite and NO were discussed during a recent 2-day meeting at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Abstract: Inorganic nitrate and nitrite from endogenous or dietary sources are metabolized in vivo to nitric oxide (NO) and other bioactive nitrogen oxides. The nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway is emerging as an important mediator of blood flow regulation, cell signaling, energetics and tissue responses to hypoxia. The latest advances in our understanding of the biochemistry, physiology and therapeutics of nitrate, nitrite and NO were discussed during a recent 2-day meeting at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

536 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023606
20221,333
2021475
2020459
2019467
2018509