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- noun chemistry The
univalent radical andfunctional group -N=O
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Examples
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Chemoprevention of N-nitroso-N-methylurea-induced rat mammary carcinogenesis by soy foods or biochanin A.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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Her research involved, successively, identification and syntheses of a number of metabolites of carcinogenic and related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); simulation in vitro of biological oxidations of PAHs; isolation of carcinogens from shale oil and coal tar; and, from the 1960s, studies on the carcinogenic action of certain pyrrolizidine (Senecio) alkaloids and their ability to induce chronic lesions and tumors in the liver, pancreas, etc., and of diazomethane and certain nitroso compounds.
Regina Schoental. 2009
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But to hear risks again and again -- well, it really ruins your barbecue (viz. heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and Slim Jims (N-nitroso compounds.)
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Here she continued research into pyrrolidizine alkaloids and nitroso compounds.
Regina Schoental. 2009
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The _Nitro-bacteria_ are smaller, finer and quite different from the nitroso-bacteria, and are incapable of attacking and utilizing ammonium carbonate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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They are very generally regarded as iso-nitroso compounds.
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_Azoxy Compounds_, R· [= N·O·N] ·R ', are usually yellow or red crystalline solids which result from the reduction of nitro or nitroso compounds by heating them with alcoholic potash (preferably using methyl alcohol).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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This compound gave a nitroso compound with nitrous acid, which changed spontaneously into benzoylazoimide by loss of water:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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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
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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
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