(a.) Of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(2) No significant difference was found for triglycerides, uric acid, albumin and gamma-globulins.
(3) These findings explain many differences in previous conflicting reports concerning the metabolic behavior of uric acid, and place future investigation thereof on a more promising basis in normal and abnormal pregnancy.
(4) Tryptophan as well as tyrosine and uric acid were found to be potent inhibitors of the hematoheme-H2O2-halide reaction but do not significantly inhibit the hematoheme-O2-ascorbate reaction.
(5) The kinetics and characteristics of uric acid entry are shown to be the same for hemolysed and normal erythrocytes.
(6) The enzyme xanthine oxidase is involved not only in the conversion of xanthine to uric acid but also in that of retinol to its more toxic metabolite, retinoic acid.
(7) Regulation of the uric acid-xanthine transport system and the hypoxanthine-adenine-guanine transport system was studied.
(8) In the HCTZ-treated group, laboratory serum tests indicated 11 patients with abnormally low potassium and seven with abnormally high uric acid concentrations.
(9) The amounts of urine N and uric acid N were only increased as a tendency.
(10) Calcium or uric acid urethral lithiasis was the main cause of obstruction in the benign group.
(11) Although the blood concentration at rest of the white cell count, haptoglobin, phosphorus, urea, creatinine, and uric acid were somewhat different in the two groups, the CF patients had similar biochemical changes in response to the exercise compared with the healthy men.
(12) had no effect on either the increased plasma uric acid or urinary uric acid excretion.
(13) In serum and urine of the patient the levels of inosine and guanosine were considerably increased, while the serum and urinary levels of uric acid were very low.
(14) In the case of (14C-8)-N6-benzyladenosine-5'-phosphate, a total of 28% of the radioactivity was recovered in the 48-hr urine collection and the following metabolites were isolated: N6-benzyladenosine (40%), uric acid (12%), adenine (trace), and unidentified urea derivatives (30%).
(15) Distributions and correlations of serum uric acid (SUA) were studied in 13,885 men and 6,861 women who were between the ages of 20 and 90.
(16) Both treatments caused significant reductions in blood pressure and increases in plasma renin activity and uric acid at 2 and 12 weeks in 6) normal renin patients; there was no difference between the effects of furosemide and that of chlorothiazide.
(17) Among several glycosaminoglycans in urine, heparan sulfate was almost exclusively identified in this matrix, as in that of uric acid stones.
(18) Altogether an increase of the linoleic acid of 14% and a decrease of the uric acid of 16% were furthermore the result.
(19) MTX clearance was found to be impaired in four of the 20 infusions, although concentrations of serum creatinine and uric nitrogen, and creatinine clearance were normal prior to the infusions.
(20) The postulated interference of therapeutic levels of alpha-methyldopa on the phosphotungstate uric acid method was invalid.
Urinary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.
(a.) Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.
(n.) A urinarium; also, a urinal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
(2) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(3) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(4) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(5) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(6) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
(7) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(8) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
(9) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(10) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(11) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
(12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(13) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(14) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
(15) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(16) GFR, urinary pH and glucose excretion were not affected by R(-)-ibuprofen.
(17) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(18) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(19) It may be that this is a differential response to urinary chemo-signals.
(20) NH4Cl reduced the promoting activity of SA in urinary bladder carcinogenesis.