Is N-acetylglutamate a short-term regulator of urea synthesis?
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A method is described for determining N-acetylglutamate as glutamate. N-Acetylglutamate content of hepatocytes from 48 h-starved rats is high. It shows no parallelism with rates of urea synthesis from glutamine. We question its accepted function as a short-term regulator of urea synthesis.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Biochemical journal
دوره 218 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1984