Bacteria commonly utilize nitrate and nitrite as terminal electron acceptors for respiration in the absence of oxygen, or for incorporation in biomass. However, it was only recently described that ...

They’re found in fruit, veg and cured meat, but why is it that we are warned against eating some foods with nitrates and nitrites in, but we’re told to fill our fridges with others?

To counteract this, supplementation of the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway from external sources can ... Sialin is not only present in cell membranes but also in various intracellular structures like ...

In humans, dietary nitrate (mostly from green leafy vegetables) is converted to nitrite in saliva, and to nitric oxide (NO) in the acidic stomach. Petersson and colleagues hypothesized that ...

This is a differential medium. It is used to determine if an organism is capable of reducing nitrate (NO 3-) to nitrite (NO 2-) or other nitrogenous compounds via the action of the enzyme nitratase ...

The letter from the EPA said these segments need to be on the impaired water list because of their levels of nitrate and nitrite, which have a “known toxicity.”The EPA said it asked Iowa ...