Metabolic Fate of an Oral Dose of 15N-labeled Nitrate in Humans: Effect of Diet Supplementation with Ascorbic Acid

Cancer Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 1921-1925

  Wagner, David A ^a   Young, Vernon R ^a   Tannenbaumum, Steven R ^a   Schultz, Dale S ^a   Deen, William M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; NITRATE; NITROGEN 15; SODIUM NITRATE N 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DIET; DRUG METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; STOMACH; STOMACH CANCER;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ASCORBIC ACID; FECES; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SALIVA;

EID: 0020625977     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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