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. 1984 Mar 15;218(3):991–994. doi: 10.1042/bj2180991

Is N-acetylglutamate a short-term regulator of urea synthesis?

P Lund, D Wiggins
PMCID: PMC1153434  PMID: 6721845

Abstract

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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