(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.
Urine
Definition:
(n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
(v. i.) To urinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(8) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(9) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(10) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(11) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(12) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(17) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
(18) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(20) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.