Nitrate, bacteria and human health

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 593-602

  Lundberg, Jon O ^a   Weitzberg, Eddie ^b   Cole, Jeff A ^c   Benjamin, Nigel ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CARCINOGEN; FERTILIZER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN OXIDE; NITROSAMINE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MOUTH CAVITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; REVIEW; SKIN; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; STOMACH MUCOSA; TOXICOKINETICS; URINARY EXCRETION; WASTE; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

EID: 3142748526     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro929     Document Type: Review

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