(1) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(2) Carbopol-940 gels, being the best of those used, were studied further for the effect of its concentration and of additives (benzalkonium chloride, phenylmercuric nitrate, chlorbutol and disodium edetate), autoclaving at 121 degrees C for 30 min and irradiation with gamma rays (2.5 Mrad), on the end product.
(3) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
(4) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
(5) The calculated daily intake of NO3- is significantly increased by drinking water nitrate content.
(6) Pharmacologic modulations of ATECD by isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) + 2-isosorbide mononitrate (2-ISMN) + 5-isosorbide mononitrate (5-ISMN) were investigated under experimental conditions reflecting either an acute nitrate effect (platelet + control ECs + drug + ADP) or a chronic effect (platelet + 5-day nitrate-treated ECs + ADP).
(7) Nitrate reductase activity in the mice fed the fibre-free diet did not markedly alter with age.
(8) Although gallium nitrate inhibited cell growth in Tf-free medium, cellular proliferation was restored by Fe-NTA.
(9) However, neither nitration with tetranitromethane of one of the nine tyrosine residues nor Nlm-ethoxyformylation of two of the four histidine residues caused any change in hemolytic activity.
(10) Most of the patients with hypotension were taking nitrates.
(11) Nitrate measures for private water sources were obtained by testing the wells individually at the existing residences.
(12) The nitrate metabolites showed sustained plasma profiles which can be explained by a slow release of GTN with subsequent complete first-pass denitration.
(13) Paracoccus (Micrococcus) denitrificans and Escherichia coli oxidizing succinate rapidly ceased to reduce nitrate when oxygen was available, and equally rapidly commenced nitrate reduction when all the oxygen had been consumed.
(14) Lanthanum nitrate used in this investigations is a valuable marker of the intercellular spaces.
(15) Orotic acid inhibited, dose-dependently DNA synthesis in hepatocytes induced by epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor alpha, hepatocyte growth factor, acidic fibroblast growth factor, or plasma from rats exposed to various liver cell-proliferative stimuli, such as two-thirds partial hepatectomy, lead nitrate, cyproterone acetate, ethylene dibromide, or a diet deficient in choline.
(16) It is suggested that the atmosphere of Athens favours the formation of secondary direct-acting mutagens due to the oxidation and nitration of PAH by ozone and nitrogen oxides, which are more abundant in the late spring months.
(17) Among other evidence against the classical theory for the mechanism of chlorate toxicity, is the finding that not all mutants lacking nitrate reductase are clorate resistant.
(18) Since no evaluation of the relative merits of electro and chemical cautery has been reported, a prospective randomized study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of electro-cautery and cautery with silver nitrate.
(19) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
(20) The effect of ammonia is partially reversed by nitrate.
Nitric
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) EDRF is even more labile than prostacyclin, with a half-life of about 6 seconds, and it has recently been identified as nitric oxide.
(2) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(3) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(4) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(5) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(6) The distribution of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) immunoreactivity was investigated in the guinea-pig small intestine.
(7) Carbon monoxide accelerates the reaction as measured by nitric oxide oxidation or ozone formation.
(8) Considerable evidence has recently been presented that suggests that nitric oxide (NO) is a nonadrenergic noncholinergic (NANC) neurotransmitter in gastrointestinal tissues.
(9) The results indicate that cytokines induce a nitric oxide-synthase of the macrophage-type in vascular smooth muscle.
(10) For comparison we investigated several structural analogues with respect to their nitric oxide or nitrite ion releasing potency.
(11) To investigate this discrepancy we studied the role of nitric oxide (NO) in DCFH oxidation.
(12) Endogenous nitric oxide thus selectively modulates peptidergic neurotransmission in the gut.
(13) Nitroglycerin (glyceryl trinitrate) is a substance that is metabolized to nitric oxide in the cell.
(14) The role of the endothelium-derived vasodilator, nitric oxide, as a mediator of the increase in gastric mucosal blood flow and as a modulator of the acid secretory response induced by pentagastrin was investigated in the anesthetised rat.
(15) Endothelium-derived relaxing factor has been tentatively identified as nitric oxide (NO) partially on the basis of chemical assays.
(16) Nitric acid and elastase were injected into the tracheae of Wistar white rats and the effect of bronchiolitis on the pathogenesis of experimental emphysema and cor pulmonale was studied.
(17) The effectiveness of L-NMMA in blocking NANC relaxation-in the rat anococcygeus but not the BRP and bovine penile artery suggests a species difference in the neuronal nitric oxide synthase.
(18) Thus, inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis leads to long-lasting, but reversible, hypertension.
(19) The constrictor response to L-NNA and the blockade of the ACh-induced relaxation by both L-NNA and removal of endothelium are consistent with an involvement of nitric oxide.
(20) Nitric oxide synthase has now been purified and molecularly cloned from brain.