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formula C5H4N4O3. It
forms ions and
salts known as
urates and acid
urates, such as
ammonium acid
urate. Uric acid is a
product of the
metabolic breakdown...
- The
enzyme urate oxidase (UO),
uricase or factor-independent
urate hydroxylase,
absent in humans,
catalyzes the
oxidation of uric acid to 5-hydroxyisourate:...
- the
deposition of needle-like
crystals of uric acid
known as
monosodium urate crystals. Pain
typically comes on rapidly,
reaching maximal intensity in...
- The
protein encoded by this gene is a
urate transporter and
urate-anion
exchanger which regulates the
level of
urate in the blood. This
protein is an integral...
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chronic kidney disease.
Types of
stones include struvite,
calcium oxalate,
urate, cystine,
calcium phosphate, and silicate.
Struvite and
calcium oxalate...
- blood. In the pH
conditions of body fluid, uric acid
exists largely as
urate, the ion form.
Serum uric acid
concentrations greater than 6 mg/dL for females...
- 15 million prescriptions.
Allopurinol is used to
reduce urate formation in
conditions where urate deposition has
already occurred or is predictable. The...
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Acute uric acid
nephropathy (AUAN, also
acute urate nephropathy) is a
rapidly worsening (decreasing)
kidney function (acute
kidney injury) that is caused...
- : tophi) is a
deposit of
monosodium urate crystals, in
people with
longstanding high
levels of uric acid (
urate) in the blood, a
condition known as hyperuricemia...
- Mau has a
higher prevalence of
urate urolithiasis (bladder stones) than mixed-breeds. A
review of over 5,000
cases of
urate uroliths had
almost half the...
