Urates

Abnormalities may include: decrease in number or volume, coloring of urate portion changing to yellow or green, increase in water content of fecal portion (diarrhea), increase in urine portion (polyuria), decrease in the feces volume with increased urates (polyurates), and the presence of blood. ❋ D.V.M. Donna Kelleher (2003)

In the urine of children, it is not unusual to find a copious precipitate of urates, yet without any observed effect on them. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

The symptoms of gout point to the presence of a toxin in the blood, and it is this which produces the lesions; the deposition of urates in the joints being secondary. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

Those particularly interested in the subject of the purins and gout are referred to the lecture on "The meaning of uric acid and the urates," by ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

[196] According to Vogel the nitrogen as urates is converted by the sulphuric acid into ammonia salts. ❋ Charles Morton Aikman (N/A)

The following selection will be found sufficient for his purpose: A set of the chief varieties of uric acid, calcic oxalate, and triple phosphate; the urates and oxalurates; urea nitrate, calcic hippurate and carbonate, hippuric acid, cystin, well mounted "casts" of the _tubili uriniferi_, spermatozoa, etc. ❋ Various (N/A)

The nearly solid light-coloured urinary excretion of birds and serpents consists of urates; this is uric acid in combination with alkalies. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

Some of the reasons for this latter and against the previously stated hypothesis, are as follows: -- Birds very rarely suffer from gout -- the nodular concretions, sometimes found about their joints and which have been ascribed to gout, are of tuberculous origin -- yet their blood contains more uric acid than that of man, and the solid matter of their excretion is mainly urates. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

It is a remarkable fact that the waste nitrogen should be excreted in the form of uric acid or urates from such widely differing classes of animals as birds and serpents. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

As an article of food it is objectionable for gouty persons liable to the passage of highly coloured urine, which deposits lithates and urates as crystals after it has cooled; and this especially holds good if hard water, which contains lime, is drunk at the same time. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Sodium chloride diminishes the solvent action of water on uric acid and the urates; but potassium salts, on the contrary, do not, they may even increase the action. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

Uric acid is a transparent colourless crystalline body almost insoluble in water but soluble as urates in the presence of alkalies. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

If an abundant amorphous deposit of a fawn or pink -- from _uroerythrin_ -- color slowly settles and is readily diffused, _urates_ in excess can be anticipated. ❋ Various (N/A)

In some concentrated urines a belt of urates will appear at the line of demarkation; but these dissolve on warming. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the urine it is in combination with alkalies as urates, perhaps also with some organic body. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

Under the head of gout are classed a number of unrelated disturbances in the gastro-intestinal tract and nutritive organs, whose sole bond of union is that they are accompanied by an excess of urates, and in well developed cases by deposits in the tissues. ❋ A. W. Duncan (N/A)

If no sugar is present the solution may remain perfectly clear or be slightly turbid, due to precipitated urates. ❋ Lewis Webb Hill (1928)

Note: Massage is of great value as a preventative of gout, as it eliminates urates and improves the general condition. ❋ Unknown (1918)

These waste-stuffs, called _urea_ and _urates_, are formed in the liver and brought in the blood to the kidneys. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)