Sentences with phrase «excreting urea»

Because when the kidneys are not excreting urea bad things happen.

Low levels of asparagine can result in the inability to properly synthesize and excrete urea, a waste product of excess dietary protein.

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The salt content of urine is high, and it also contains urea, the ammonia - scented end product of protein metabolism that must be excreted from the body.

Their urine or faeces, excreted together, contain amino acids and urea — substances that are commercially used to spray on leaves to fertilise the plants.

Although our bodies normally produce small amounts of ammonia when we break down proteins, liver enzymes transform it into a safer compound, urea, which is excreted in our urine.

It is excreted as urea, mostly through urine.

In everyday diets ketones provide your brain with energy, but when there is an excess of fat burning going on (and therefore an excess of ketones being produced) the body excretes the extra ketones through breath and urea, often giving you a rather unpleasant smell.

Under standard conditions, 90 % of excess protein is turned into urea (a non-toxic waste product) and excreted in the urine.

The ammonia is combined with carbon dioxide in the urea cycle, and excreted in urine, and the carbon skeleton can be either used for energy directly or converted into other compounds, such as glucose or fatty acids.

For a healthy individual, this is not a problem, as the kidneys can easily process the ammonia and excrete it as urea.

Additionally, there was an increase in urea production (a waste product of protein metabolism), indicating that the excess AAs were simply being catabolized in the liver to be excreted in the urine; that is, those AAs were wasted and never utilized by the muscle.

(1) Excess protein is broken down to urea by the liver, which has a diuretic effect on the kidney and results in minerals, including calcium, to be excreted from the body.

Urea is a by - product of protein that needs to be excreted by the kidneys.

According to Dr. Ariel Policano, a naturopathic physician, watermelon helps the liver process ammonia — a toxic nitrogen - containing waste product left over from amino acid metabolism and converts it into a molecule known as urea, a component of urine that is safely excreted from the body.

The excessive protein nitrogen is excreted in the form of urea in urine.

Each gram of protein you consume requires about 8 grams of water in order for the waste products of protein metabolism (urea) to be excreted in urine [45].

One measured fluid, electrolyte, and renal indices of hydration over eleven days of caffeine consumption in human subjects, finding that doses of up to 6 mg caffeine per kilogram of body weight had no effect on body mass, urine osmolality (urine concentration), urine specific gravity (concentration of excreted materials in urine), urine color, urine volume, sodium excretion, potassium secretion, creatinine content, blood urea nitrogen (forms when protein breaks down), and serum levels of sodium and potassium.

Arginine: Aids in the conversion of the toxic waste product ammonia into urea to be excreted from the body via urine.

• Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)-- BUN is produced by the liver and excreted by the kidneys.

Urea can safely diffuse into the blood and then be excreted into the urine.

Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN): BUN is produced by the liver and excreted by the kidneys.

Rabbits excrete excess protein as urea in the urine.

Proteins consumed by the cat are broken down and converted into urea nitrogen, which is then excreted by the kidneys, along with other waste products.

Protein is excreted through urea in urine so cat depositions produce a high amount of ammonia.