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Recent advances in renal urate transport: characterization of candidate transporters indicated by genome-wide association studies.
Clinical and experimental nephrology - 1 Feb 2012
Anzai Naohiko, Jutabha Promsuk, Amonpatumrat-Takahashi Sirirat, Sakurai Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
Humans have higher serum uric acid levels than other mammalian species owing to the genetic silencing of the hepatic enzyme uricase that metabolizes uric acid into allantoin. Urate (the ionized form of uric acid) is generated from purine metabolism and it may provide antioxidant defense in the human body. Despite its potential advantage, sustained hyperuricemia has pathogenetic causes in gout and renal diseases,...
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