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  • noun organic chemistry The conversion of an amine or other compound into a nitroso compound

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Examples

  • This process, called nitrosation, converts some substances found in foods or contaminated water into cancer-causing compounds.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

  • When the test was used on the urine samples from the pilot garlic study, it showed that the participants who had taken garlic had lower concentrations of the marker for nitrosation than did those who took no garlic.

    High Plains Journal: Ag News 2010

  • S-nitroso groups are unstable and protein S-nitrosation is therefore a rapidly and spontaneously reversible posttranslational modification.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

  • As we showed previously that Ang II induces the nitration rather than the S-nitrosation of other kinases

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

  • S-nitrosylation or nitrosation is the modification of sulfhydryl (- SH) to S-nitroso (- SNO) groups and appears to occur at a molar NO/O

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

  • That research team then turned to Harrison and colleagues, who explored the methods required to precisely quantify biomarkers in urine for both the garlic consumption and the presence of nitrosoproline, the indicator that nitrosation has occurred.

    High Plains Journal: Ag News 2010

  • These processes include nitrosation, or the conversion of some substances found in foods or contaminated water into carcinogens.

    Analysis 2010

  • Vitamin C had a similar effect in lowering the marker for nitrosation.

    High Plains Journal: Ag News 2010

  • These processes include nitrosation, or the conversion of some substances found in foods or contaminated water into carcinogens.

    High Plains Journal: Ag News 2010

  • "The precise mechanism by which garlic and other compounds affect nitrosation is under extensive investigation, but is not clear at this time," he said.

    High Plains Journal: Ag News 2010

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