"Dimethylnitrosamine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nitrosamine derivative with alkylating, carcinogenic, and mutagenic properties. It causes serious liver damage and is a hepatocarcinogen in rodents.
| Descriptor ID |
D004128
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.654.442.225
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| Concept/Terms |
Dimethylnitrosamine- Dimethylnitrosamine
- NDMA Nitrosodimethylamine
- Nitrosodimethylamine, NDMA
- Nitrosodimethylamine
- N-Nitrosodimethylamine
- N Nitrosodimethylamine
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dimethylnitrosamine" by people in Profiles.
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Inhibition and induction of rabbit liver microsomal cytochrome P-450 by pyridine. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1987 Oct; 243(1):384-90.
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Induction of rabbit hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 by imidazole: enhanced metabolic activity and altered substrate specificity. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1984 Dec; 235(2):470-81.
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Comparison of the rates of repair of O6-alkylguanines in DNA by rat liver and bacterial O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase. Cancer Res. 1984 Sep; 44(9):3806-11.
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[Studies on the mechanism of the diabetogenic activity of streptozotocin and on the ability of compounds to block the diabetogenic activity of streptozotocin (author's transl)]. Nihon Naibunpi Gakkai Zasshi. 1975 Mar 20; 51(3):129-47.