The purin bodies are both endogenous and exogenous--that is, they may be brought into the body in food as such, or they may be formed as a result of the metabolism of the body tissues.
Eggs and milk are purin free, and may be used freely.
Uric Acid~ is produced as the result of the metabolism in the human body of the nucleoproteins and in food of the purin bodies.
One in which the foods rich in purin bases are eliminated.
Nucleic acid is rich in phosphorus and upon decomposition yields some of the purin bases (xanthin, adenin, guanin), a carbohydrate and phosphoric acid.
The following list shows the purin content of some of the above-mentioned foods.
The latter is the most highly oxidized of all the purin bases and is the form in which they are chiefly eliminated in the urine.
It has been proved that the kidneys in nephritis find it difficult to excrete certain substances, namely, urea, water, salts, and the purin bodies.
When the nitrogenous substances are oxidized, the used-up oxygen products are eliminated by the kidneys in the form of urea and more or less highly oxidized substances, such as ammonia and other salts, purin bases, and creatinin.
Chicken and fish contain less purin bases and for this reason are often included in the diet when beefsteak and lamb chops are excluded.
N = C\ 1 The pyrimidin ring is numbered 2C C5 For the purin ring, see PURIN.
In addition to the above series there are a considerable number of compounds derived from purinwhich are by some writers classed with the alkaloids.
The amount of the other purin bodies together is about one-tenth that of uric acid.
This amount may be regarded as uric acid, since this substance usually constitutes nine-tenths of the purin bodies and the clinical significance is the same.
Uric acid is the most important of a group of substances, called purin bodies, which are derived chiefly from the nucleins of the food and from metabolic destruction of the nuclei of the body.
These formulæ show merely the relative position occupied by caffein in the purin group, and do not in any wise indicate, because of its similarity of structure to the other compounds, that it has the same physiological action.
The maximum increase occurs at the same time after a meal as it does when purin food but no alcohol is taken.
Two rabbits had the purin hypoxanthin given to them daily, in quantities which if given to a man in proportion to his weight, would have been 17 and 3 grains respectively.
Walker Hall, from "The Purin Bodies in Food Stuffs.
Professor Carl von Noorden says of gout, "with regard to treatment we are all agreed that food containing an excess of purin bodies should be avoided, and those words embody almost all there is to be said as to dietetics.
Yeast extracts contain purin bodies, and are probably equally as injurious as meat extracts.
An able scientific summary of investigations on purins, their chemical and pathological properties, and the quantities in foods will be found in "The Purin Bodies of Food Stuffs," by Dr.
The effects of purin bodies in producing illness has been patiently and thoroughly worked out by Dr.
A portion of the purins remain undigested, the quantity depending upon the particular purin and the vigour of the digestive organs.
The term purinhas been applied to all bodies containing the nucleus C{5}N{4}.
If it were possible to remove, without interfering with the nutritious constituents, the membraneous matter, the creatin, creatinine and purin bodies, we should reduce it to a little less than four ounces.
Prokosch and Purin seem to be popular with the Board of Education, for they are represented by another book called "Conversation and Reading Book," which is full of stories and patriotic anecdotes.
Red meat contains more of the substances producing purin bodies than any other one common foodstuff, and for this reason the excessive meat eater is, ceteris paribus, more apt to develop arteriosclerosis comparatively early in life.
The first stage of his purin work successfully accomplished, he next attacked the sugar group.
But his greatest work in this field was instituted in 1894, when he commenced his great series of papers, wherein the compounds above mentioned were all referred to a nitrogenous base, purin (q.
Here the ground had been broken more especially by von Baeyer, but practically all our knowledge of the so-called purin group (the wordpurin appears to have been suggested by the phrase purum uricum) is due to Fischer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
