Journal of Nutrition OpenSOurce Diets- www.ResearchDiets.com

Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Journal of Nutrition Vol. 69 No. 1 September 1959, pp. 39-44
Copyright © 1959 by American Society for Nutrition
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Purchase Article
Right arrow View Shopping Cart
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kilgore, L.
Right arrow Articles by Gieger, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kilgore, L.
Right arrow Articles by Gieger, M.

The Effects of Dietary Nitrate on Rabbits and Rats1

Lois Kilgore, Lois Almon2 and Marvin Gieger

Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, State College

Methemoglobin rises significantly in the circulation of rabbits and rats with increases in the levels of nitrate ingested either as sodium nitrate or as it occurs naturally in plant food.

The levels to which methemoglobin rises are not high enough to cause abnormal behavior or appearance except in occasional animals temporarily aberrant due to unexplained causes, or in a larger number of animals ingesting amounts of nitrate greater than would likely occur under natural conditions.

The fact that large amounts of nitrate ingested cannot be recovered in that form in the excreta permits the assumption that some of it is reduced in the body. The recovery of small amounts of nitrite in the urine substantiates this assumption and provides evidence for its existence in the blood where it could act on the hemoglobin. Some nitrate remains unaccounted for and this raises the question of its fate and the reaction in the system of any other products which might be formed.

1 Published with the approval of the Director, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Journal Paper No. 752, 1959. This is a report of work done by the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station contributory to Southern Regional Cooperative Project S-32 on "Quality and Nutritive Value of Vegetables as Influenced by Cultural Conditions and Post-harvest Practices."

2 Present address: Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Manuscript received 21 February 1959.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 ScienceHome page
J. P. WITTER, S. J. GATLEY, and E. BALISH
Nitrate and Nitrite: Origin in Humans
Science, September 28, 1979; 205(4413): 1335 - 1337.
[PDF]


Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]