Urea Synthesis in the Lungfish: Relative Importance of Purine and Ornithine Cycle Pathways
- 30 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 153 (3744), 1650-1652
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.153.3744.1650
Abstract
The relative importance of the purine pathway (uricolysis) and the ornithine cycle as routes for urea synthesis was assessed in isolated liver preparations from the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi. Incorporation of C14-labeled precursors into urea was used for comparison. Both pathways are present in the lungfish, but the ornithine cycle is quantitatively more important.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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