Dietary constituents can affect cow acid-base physiology and uterine pH. Dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) has been shown to affect cow acid-base physiology, but the effect on uterine pH has not been demonstrated. The objective of this work was to determine if DCAD [(Na + K + 0.15Ca + 0.15Mg) - (Cl + 0.60S + 0.50P)] could affect cow DMI, acid-base physiology, and uterine pH, and second, to...

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1. Lysosomal proteinase activity was assayed in human cadaver kidney, urine, granules from poly­ morphonuclear leucocytes of normal persons, and urine samples from 154 patients with renal disease. 2. Granules from polymorphonuclear leuco­ cytes showed proteinase activity at acid and neutral pH, whereas cadaver kidney showed proteinase activity at acid pH only. 3. The urine from 13 patients with...

Urine myoglobin concentrations are measured clinically to assess rhabdomyolysis and the related risk of renal damage. We studied urine myoglobin concentrations in vitro to explore the factors affecting stability. Myoglobin was very unstable in urine specimens, especially below pH 6.5, and its immunoreactivity deteriorated rapidly with increasing temperatures. The deterioration rate was influenc...

BACKGROUND Increase in the incidence of hyperuricemia associated with gout as well as hypertension, renal diseases and cardiovascular diseases has been a public health concern. We examined the possibility of facilitated excretion of uric acid by change in urine pH by managing food materials. METHODS Within the framework of the Japanese government's health promotion program, we made recipes wh...

This research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of various diffusers in a bioreactor for producing liquid organic fertilizer (LOF) using cow urine and slurry waste as materials. LOF was produced by treating with Urine-Single Orifice Diffuser (USOD), Urine-Coarse Bubble (UCBD), Urine-Fine (UFBD), Slurry-Single (SSOD), Slurry-Coarse (SCBD), Slurry-Fine (SFBD) equipped water pump an external aer...

Hypothesis / aims of study Acidic urine may play a role in the development of symptoms in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) because activation of afferent C-fibres can be triggered by excessive H + ions in acidic urine. In a previous study, which was presented at the AUA in 2009, we demonstrated that urine alkalinisation could be effective for reducing symptoms,...

Aim—To evaluate the reliability of dipstick measurements of urine specific gravity (U-SG). Methods—Fresh urine specimens were tested for urine pH and osmolality (U-pH, U-Osm) by a pH meter and an osmometer, and for U-SG by three diVerent methods (refractometry, automatic readout of a dipstick (Clinitek-50), and (visual) change of colour of the dipstick). Results—The correlations between the vis...

Two processes permit the urine pH and the medullary interstitial pH to remain in an "ideal range" to minimize the risk of forming kidney stones. First, a medullary shunt for NH(3) maintains the urine pH near 6.0 to minimize uric acid precipitation when distal H(+) secretion is high. Second, excreting dietary alkali excreting alkali as a family of organic anions--including citrate--rather than a...

Using a gas-chromatographic method, we examined the effects of phosphate concentration, added calcium chloride, and pH on precipitation of oxalate from urine. All three factors are important, but the pH of precipitation is particularly so, especially in the presence of even normal concentrations of ascorbic acid. At pH 8, increases in measured oxalate ranged from 20% at an ascorbic acid concent...