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Uric acid and Urate in Urolithiasis: The Innocent Bystander, Instigator, and Perpetrator

Uric acid is an end product of purine metabolism in humans. An unusual and still unexplained phenomenon is that higher primates have relatively high uric acid levels in body fluids due to a combination of absence of degradation, and renal retention. The physiologic purpose of high uric acid levels i...

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Published in:Semin Nephrol
Main Authors: Adomako, Emmanuel, Moe, Orson W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8127876/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33678311
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.semnephrol.2020.12.003
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