Sentences with phrase «form urate»

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A reduction in animal protein reduces the production of acids within the body and appears to limit the excretion of urate — uric acid crystals that can act as seeds to form calcium stones or create entire stones themselves.

A reduction in animal protein should also limit the excretion of urate — uric acid crystals that can act as a seed to form calcium stones, or can create entire stones themselves.

Certain types of stones are more amenable to this form of fragmentation (calcium oxalate stones are especially amenable while urate stones, for example, are not).

These two compounds combine to form the ammonium urate bladder stone.

Some breeds of dogs appear to be particularly susceptible to one form of crystal or another (eg: calcium oxalate or urate nephroliths).