BACKGROUND The systemic hypotension during human sepsis has been ascribed to increased production of nitric oxide (NO). Therefore, inhibitors of NO synthesis have been used in the treatment of hypotension in patients with septic shock. In addition, NO production may inhibit the synthesis and vasoconstrictor effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1). In this study, we tested whether ET-1 contributed to the...

Background and Objectives: Sodium nitrite and potassium nitrite have been traditionally used for inhibition of Clostridium botulinum and also as an agent to stabilize the color of meat products; however, usage of these additives at high levels could lead to toxicity and cancer originating from the formation of nitrosamines. Nowadays, application of natural preservatives in order to reduce the n...

a new, simple, rapid, and cheap method for determination of trace amounts of nitrite ion is reported.determination is based on reduction of bromate ion by nitrite ion, in the presence of murexide inacidic media. during reaction of bromate ion with nitrite ion, the reaction mixture is decolorized.the absorbance changes is then monitored spectrophotometricaly at 520 nm, at 25 °c. dynamicrange of ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a newly discovered fumigant for postharvest pest control. This paper provides detailed protocols for conducting NO fumigation on fresh products and procedures for residue analysis and product quality evaluation. An airtight fumigation chamber containing fresh fruit and vegetables is first flushed with nitrogen (N2) to establish an ultralow oxygen (ULO) environment followed ...

Two-color ( 1 + 1) REMPI (resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization) photoelectron spectroscopy is used to probe the NO photofragments produced by the UV photodissociation of methyl nitrite, i.e., CH30NO + hv ...... CH30NO*(S2 ) ...... CH30· (X)+ NO(X, v, J). The photofragments are produced in their ground electronic states but with high rotational and translational energy. NO fragment angular...

the glass transition temperature of several pvac(1)-b-poly(ma-co-mma) (2) terpolymers with different fractions of methyl acrylate (ma) and methyl methacrylate (mma) repeating units in random copolymer (block 2) were calculated with barton, kwei and topological equations. the calculation was on the basis of the correlation between the fraction of repeating units in random copolymers and theoreti...

Nitrite and nitrate restore deficient endogenous nitric oxide (NO) production as they are converted back to NO, and therefore complement the classic enzymatic NO synthesis. Circulating nitrate and nitrite must cross membrane barriers to produce their effects and increased nitrate concentrations may attenuate the nitrite influx into cells, decreasing NO generation from nitrite. Moreover, xanthin...