(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.
Uvic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, C7H8O3 (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) The graduates and students of the School of Health Information Science (HIS) at the University of Victoria (UVic) have pioneered the Canadian sphere in health informatics since 1982.