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Possible Interaction: Nitrous Oxide and Vitamin B Complex

Research Papers that Mention the Interaction

In a seminal study, Amess and his colleagues (1978) showed that 24 h of administration of nitrous oxide to patients caused interference with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis, and they correctly inferred that nitrous oxide had interfered with the function of vitamin B,,.
British journal of anaesthesia  •  1987  |  View Paper
Although vitamin B 12 becomes biologically inactive in the presence of nitrous oxide , this certainly is of no clinical consequence in exposures lasting less than eight hours.
Anaesthesiologie und Reanimation  •  1989  |  View Paper
Nitrous oxide , for example, is known to inactivate vitamin B ,, by oxidation.
Anaesthesia  •  1987  |  View Paper
The … nitrous oxide … vitamin B , cob(1)alamin to cob(I1)alamin in vitro.2 Soon thereafter it was established that a similar reaction occurred in rats … state) was inactivated.3 Methionine synthase activity is required for the conversion of homocysteine to methionine and for the demethylation of methyltetrahydrofolate.
Anaesthesia  •  1986  |  View Paper