An Improved method of isolation and quantitation, using Dowex-1 ion-exchange chromatography and paper electrophoresis, has permitted efficient recovery of guanidinosuccinic acid from serum, urine and ...

After several decades during which little attention was paid to vasopressin and/or urine concentration in clinical practice, interest in vasopressin has renewed with the availability of new, potent, ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

L. Gerardo Herrera M., Nicte Ramírez P. and Leticia Mirón M. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches Abstract We determined the effect of water and nitrogen ...

LYSOZYME, a bacteriolytic enzyme discovered in 1922 by Sir Alexander Fleming, 2 is found in a number of biologic fluids. The enzyme is a basic protein of low molecular weight that lyses susceptible ...

Excretion is the process of removal of toxic wastes from the body of an organism. The major wastes produced by us are: Carbon dioxide and Urea. Carbon dioxide is produced by the process of respiration ...

Pet turtles can be unsanitary. But Chinese soft-shelled turtles really up the ante on distasteful behavior. They perform a variation on urination—through their mouths. Most land-based vertebrates ...

World Kidney day 2019: One of the key tasks of the kidney is to regulate fluid and electrolyte balance. 14th March, World Kidney Day is dedicated towards the awareness, prevention, and treatment of ...