Nitrate in drinking water and cancer risk: the biological mechanism, epidemiological evidence and future research
Tim Chambers, Jeroen Douwes, Andrea ’t Mannetje, Alistair Woodward, Michael G. Baker, Nick Wilson, Simon Hales
Abstract
also proliferate in the gastrointestinal tract (stomach, small intestine and large intestine). 16,17Thus, nitrite, nitric oxide and other nitrosation agents are potentially bioavailable throughout the gastrointestinal tract.
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EpidemiologyEnvironmental healthMechanism (biology)NitrateMedicineBiologyEcologyPathologyPhilosophyEpistemologyHydrogen's biological and therapeutic effectsChemical Analysis and Environmental ImpactSulfur Compounds in Biology