In their native environment, gulf toadfish excrete equal quantities of ammonia and urea. However, upon exposure to stressful conditions in the laboratory (i.e. crowding, confinement or air exposure), toadfish decrease branchial ammonia excretion and become ureotelic. The objective of this study was to determine the influences of cortisol and ammonia on ammonia excretion relative to expression o...

The kidney plays an important role in ammonia metabolism. In this study the hypothesis was tested that the kidney can acutely diminish ammonia release after portacaval shunting. Thirteen patients with cirrhosis (6 female/7 male, age 54.4 +/- 3.3 yr) were studied. Blood was sampled prior to and 1 h after transjugular intrahepatic stent-shunt (TIPSS) insertion from the portal vein, a hepatic vein...

Bill Milsom has made seminal contributions to our understanding of ventilatory control in a wide range of vertebrates. Teleosts are particularly interesting, because they produce a 3rd, potentially toxic respiratory gas (ammonia) in large amounts. Fish are well known to hyperventilate under high environmental ammonia (HEA), but only recently has the potential role of ammonia in normal ventilato...

The purposes of this study were to prove that ammonia can be present in biogas from anaerobic digestion and to control this ammonia by reducing the reactor pH. Ammonia containing biogas was produced for a period of more than 100 days, with a maximum of 332 ppm. Especially during periods of high free ammonia concentrations in the reactor was ammonia present in biogas. The free ammonia was effect...

*Correspondence: Shanwen Tao, Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, UK e-mail: [email protected] Ammonia, an important basic chemical, is produced at a scale of 150 million tons per year. Half of hydrogen produced in chemical industry is used for ammonia production. Ammonia containing 17.5 wt% hydrogen is an ideal carbon-free fuel for fu...

Inflow of preformed ammonia in arterial blood, renal production of ammonia, outflow of ammonia in renal venous blood, and urinary excretion of ammonia were measured during the infusion of (15)NH(4)Cl into one renal artery of dogs with chronic metabolic acidosis. Our results show that the specific activity of ammonia measured in the urine and that calculated in the renal pool agree within 95%. P...

S-Methylcysteine has been isolated from the nonprotein nitrogen fractions of cabbage, turnips, and several other crucifers, and the structure of the amino acid was established by chemical studies and by comparison with a synthetic material (14). Subsequently, this compound has been found in garlic and onion (5)) kidney bean seeds (6)) Neurospora crassa (7)) and the hemolymph of Prod&a ericlenia...

Loxtidine hemisuccinate is a potent, long-acting H,-receptor antagonist under investigation as an anti-ulcer drug (Brittain & Jack, 1983). We have studied the metabolism of loxtidine hemisuccinate labelled with either 3H or I4C (Fig. I). Rats and dogs were given single oral doses of 1-50mg of I I4C lloxtidine base/kg body wt. In both species the compound was well absorbed with peak concentratio...

Resurgence of interest in ammonia metabolism in liver disease has resulted in extensive use of the blood ammonia determination as a clinical and investigative tool. Almost all methods for the determination of ammonia in blood are based on the liberation of ammonia by alkalinization, diffusion of the ammonia into an acid medium, followed by titrimetric or colorimetric quantitation. Although wide...