Catherine Rivara, MS Advisor: Dr. Jody Lulich Thesis: The role
of urine concentrations of purine metabolites as markers of disease.
Although Calafat's team
reported urine concentrations of BPA, in fact they assayed a breakdown product — the compound by which BPA is excreted, notes Steven G. Hentges of the American Chemistry Council's Polycarbonate / BPA Global Group.
Hentges» group estimates that the daily BPA intake needed to
create urine concentrations reported by the CDC scientists should be in the neighborhood of 50 nanograms per kilogram of bodyweight — or one millionth of an amount at which «no adverse effects» were measured in multi-generation animal studies.
Your veterinarian may recommend some monitoring tests to make sure the pH and
urine concentration stay in a range where struvite stones should not form.
I started explaining chronic renal failure and was heading down the road of initiating treatment when my wife (also a vet) pointed out that I was probably jumping the gun, since we had an apparently normal patient with normal creatinine and
normal urine concentration.
Remember, what you feed is not nearly as important as the effects it has on your
cats urine concentration (specific gravity) and pH. There is evidence that some «stone - forming» cats absorb and process dietary ingredients differently than non-stone forming cats.
Decreased urine concentration of natural body crystal formation inhibitors, and increased dietary intake of oxalate may also play a role in calcium oxalate stone formation.
Remember, what you feed is not nearly as important as the effects it has on your
dogs urine concentration (specific gravity) and pH. There is evidence that some «stone - forming» dogs absorb and process dietary ingredients differently than non-stone forming dogs.
Supports the body's natural detoxification abilities by increasing concentrations of heavy metal excretion in the urine
Uptake of black raspberry anthocyanins reached 7.5 % of the administered dose in the small intestinal tissue, which is much higher than the reported bioavailability of these compounds based on plasma and
urine concentrations (13).
CRI is diagnosed by looking at the levels of two waste products in the bloodstream, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine, as well as
the urine concentration.
So, to help see how a cat's kidneys are doing, vets test the urine quality or appropriateness of
urine concentration.
So your pet's
urine concentration (its specific gravity) needs to be considered in light of the pet's total health picture.
The next is
urine concentration.
Your veterinarian will be looking for signs of infection or inflammation, crystals,
urine concentration, pHA figure expressing the acidity or alkalinity of a solution on a logarithmic scale on which 7 is neutral, lower values are more acid, and higher values more alkaline.
In addition to testing for these products, a urinalysis can detect urinary tract infections and urinary crystals and allows evaluation of
urine concentration, which is an important indicator of conditions such as kidney disease, diabetes and Cushing's disease.
The measurement of
urine concentration is called Urine Specific Gravity (USG).
Dry diets also predispose cats to lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD, LUTD, FUS, crystals, stones, cystitis) because they force such a high degree of
urine concentration.