An Indiana University School of Medicine physician scientist is making strides in understanding the molecular origins of fatty liver disease, a leading cause of liver failure in the United States. By ...

THE procedures for the estimation of enzymes of the urea cycle reported by Brown and Cohen 1 have made it possible to study quantitatively the effect of hormones on the individual reactions of the ...

The specific symptoms of disorders related to the urea cycle vary among the different types of these disorders. Typically, with complete deficiency of urea cycle enzymes, symptoms present within the ...

Arginase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that disrupts the final step of the urea cycle, impairing the conversion of arginine into urea and ornithine. In affected ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana University School of Medicine physician scientist is making strides in understanding the molecular origins of fatty liver disease, a leading cause of liver failure in the ...

Urea cycle disorders are a group of inherited metabolic disorders that make it difficult for patients to remove toxic waste products. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug ...

Scientists have discovered that marine diatoms, tiny phytoplankton abundant in the sea, have an animal-like urea cycle, and that this cycle enables the diatoms to efficiently use carbon and nitrogen ...