"Sodium Nitrite" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nitrous acid sodium salt. Used in many industrial processes, in meat curing, coloring, and preserving, and as a reagent in ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES. It is used therapeutically as an antidote in cyanide poisoning. The compound is toxic and mutagenic and will react in vivo with secondary or tertiary amines thereby producing highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
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D012977
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.625.600.600.800 D01.857.775
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Nocek JM, Kurtz DM, Pickering RA, Doyle MP. Oxidation of deoxyhemerythrin to semi-methemerythrin by nitrite. J Biol Chem. 1984 Oct 25; 259(20):12334-8.