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Descriptor English: Sodium Nitrite
Descriptor Spanish: Nitrito de Sodio
Descriptor nitrito sódico
Entry term(s) nitrito de sodio
Scope note: Sal de sodio del ácido nitroso. Se utiliza en muchos procesos industriales, en la conservación, coloración y curación de las carnes y como reactivo en las TÉCNICAS DE QUIMICA ANALÍTICA. Terapéuticamente se emplea como antídoto en la intoxicación por cianuro. El compuesto es tóxico y mutagénico y reacciona in vivo con aminas secundarias y terciarias produciendo nitrosaminas altamente carcinógenas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Nitrito de Sódio
Descriptor French: Nitrite de sodium
Entry term(s): Nitrite, Sodium
Tree number(s): D01.625.600.600.800
D01.857.775
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012977
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Pharm Action: Food Preservatives
Indicators and Reagents
Registry Number: M0KG633D4F
CAS Type 1 Name: Nitrous acid, sodium salt
Previous Indexing: Nitrites (1966-1978)
Sodium (1966-1978)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under NITRITES 1979-90
History Note: 91(79); was see under NITRITES 1979-90
DeCS ID: 13363
Unique ID: D012977
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/03/15
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Sodium Nitrite - Preferred
Concept UI M0020113
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Sodium Nitrite
Entry term(s) Nitrite, Sodium



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