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. 1974 Nov;15(11):898–902. doi: 10.1136/gut.15.11.898

Utilization of urea nitrogen for albumin synthesis in the stagnant loop syndrome

Rae Varcoe, D Halliday, A S Tavill
PMCID: PMC1413053  PMID: 4455568

Abstract

A study of urea and albumin metabolism was carried out in a patient with the stagnant loop syndrome and in a control subject using radioisotopic and stable isotopic techniques. The patient had a higher rate of urea synthesis, urea hydrolysis in the gut, and of incorporation of recycled urea nitrogen into albumin. Although only a small proportion (0·4%) of the urea nitrogen available was used for albumin synthesis and this constituted only 0·8% of the daily nitrogen requirement for this purpose, the reutilization of nitrogen was relatively much greater than was observed in the control study.

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