Nitrite and Nitrate Are Formed by Endogenous Synthesis in the Human Intestine
- 30 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 200 (4349), 1487-1489
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.663630
Abstract
Studies of nitrate balance in humans and analyses of fecal and ileostomy samples indicate that nitrite and nitrate are formed de novo in the intestine, possibly by heterotrophic nitrification. These findings significantly alter our previous conceptions of human exposure to nitrite and suggest an even wider role for nitrite in the etiology of human cancer.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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