Nitrate exposure and the endogenous formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines in humans

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-116

  Vermeer, I T M ^a   Van Maanen, J M S ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE;

CARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; REVIEW; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034917078     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.2001.16.2.105     Document Type: Review

References (68)

1. Cyanosis in infants caused by nitrates in well water
2. Survey of the literature relating to infant methemoglobinemia due to nitrate contaminated water
3. Methaemoglobinaemia
4. Consumption of drinking water with high nitrate levels causes hypertrophy of the thyroid
5. Nitrate, nitrite and N-nitroso compounds
6. Nitrates, nitrites and N-nitroso compounds: A review of the occurrence in food and diet and the toxicological implications
7. Influence of dietary nitrate on nitrite content of human saliva: Possible relevance to in vivo formation of N-nitroso compounds
8. The effects of nitrate, nitrite and N-nitroso compounds on human health: A review
9. Dietary nitrate in man: Friend or foe?
10. Infantile methemoglobinemia: Reexamining the role of drinking water nitrates
11. Blood nitrates and infantile methemoglobinemia
12. Role of N-nitroso compounds (NOC) and N-nitrosation in etiology of gastric, esophageal, nasopharyngeal and bladder cancer and contribution to cancer of known exposures to NOC
13. Putative mutagens/carcinogens in foods. I. Nitrate/nitrite ingestion and gastric cancer mortality
14. The etiology of gastric cancer: Intragastric nitrosamid formation and other theories
15. Concentrations of nitrate in drinking water and incidence of gastric carcinomas: First descriptive study of the Piemonte region, Italy
16. The relationship between gastric mucosal changes and nitrate intake via drinking water in a high risk population for gastric cancer in Moping county, China
17. Drinking water nitrate and the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
18. Council Directive on the Quality of Water for Human Consumption, No. 80/778
19. Basis-document nitraat
20. Animal species in which N-nitroso compounds induce cancer
21. Carcinogenesis by nitrosamines and azoxyalkanes by different routes of administration to rats
22. Mechanisms of gastric carcinogenesis
23. Risk of colorectal and other gastro-intestinal cancers after exposure to nitrate, nitrite and N-nitroso compounds: A follow-up study
24. The experimental basis for the role of nitroso compounds in human cancer
25. Human exposure to endogenous N-nitroso compounds: Quantitative estimates in subjects at high risk for cancer of the oral cavity, oesophagus, stomach and urinary bladder
26. Exposure of humans to endogenous N-nitroso compounds: Implications in cancer etiology
27. Urinary excretion of N-nitrosamino acids and nitrate by inhabitants of high- and low-risk areas for oesophageal cancer in Northern China: Endogenous formation of nitrosoproline and its inhibition by vitamin C
28. Urinary excretion of nitrate, N-nitrosoproline, 3-methyladenine and 7-methylguanine in a Colombian population at high risk for stomach cancer
29. Geographic association between urinary excretion of N-nitroso compounds and oesophageal cancer mortality in China
30. Fatal nitrosamine poisoning
31. Lethal exitus of a patient with N-nitrosodimethylamine poisoning, 2.5 years following the first ingestion and signs of intoxication
32. Methylated purines in human liver DNA after probable dimethylnitrosamine poisoning
33. Approaches to cancer prevention based on an understanding of N-nitrosamine carcinogenesis
34. Environmental exposure to N-nitroso compounds (NOC) and precursors: An overview
35. N-nitroso compounds and man: Sources of exposure, endogenous formation and occurrence in body fluids
36. Preformed N-nitroso compounds in foods and beverages
37. N-nitroso compounds in the diet
38. Mechanisms of endogenous nitrosation
39. Chronic infections and inflammatory processes as cancer risk factors: Possible role of nitric oxide in carcinogenesis
40. Inhibitors of endogenous nitrosation. Mechanisms and implications in human cancer prevention
41. Quantitative estimation of endogenous nitrosation in humans by monitoring N-nitrosoproline excreted in the urine
42. The inhibitory effect of Chinese tea and its polyphenols on in vitro and in vivo N-nitrosation
43. 15N]nitrate
44. Urinary excretion of nitrosodimethylamine and nitrosoproline in humans: Interindividual and intraindividual differences and the effect of administered ascorbic acid and alphatocopherol
45. Evaluation of fecal mutagenicity and colorectal cancer risk
46. Quantitative relationship between oral nitrate-reducing activity and the endogenous formation of N-nitrosoamino acids in humans
47. Modulation of nitrate-nitrite conversion in the oral cavity
48. Nitrate contamination of drinking water: Evaluation of genotoxic risk in human populations
49. Nitrate contamination of drinking water: Relationship with HPRT variant frequency in lymphocyte DNA and urinary excretion of N-nitrosamines
50. Excretion of volatile nitrosamines in a rural population in relation to food and drinking water consumption
51. Volatile N-nitrosamine formation after intake of nitrate at the ADI level in combination with an amine-rich diet
52. In vivo nitro-sation of aminopyrine in humans: Use of ethanol effect for biological monitoring of N-nitroso-dimethylamine in urine
53. Effect of ascorbic acid and green tea on endogenous formation of N-nitrosodimethylamine and N-nitrosopiperidine in humans
54. Catalysis of nitrosation in vitro and in vivo in rats by catechin and resorcinol and inhibition by chlorogenic acid
55. Formation of nitrosamines during consumption of nitrate- and amine-rich foods, and the influence of the use of mouthwashes
56. Effect of dietary nitrate on thyroid function
57. Consumption of drinking water with high nitrate levels causes hypertrophy of the thyroid
58. Diabetes produced in mice by smoked/cured mutton
59. Incidence of childhood diabetes mellitus in Yorkshire, northern England, is associated with nitrate in drinking water: An ecological analysis
60. Nitrate levels in community drinking water and risk of IDDM
61. Does the risk of childhood diabetes mellitus require revision of the guideline values for nitrate in drinking water?