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  • Title: Purine salvage as metabolite and energy saving mechanism in Camelus dromedarius: the recovery of guanine.
    Author: Mura U, Osman AM, Mohamed AS, Di Martino D, Ipata PL.
    Journal: Comp Biochem Physiol B; 1987; 87(1):157-60. PubMed ID: 3608430.
    Abstract:
    The preservation of purine ring as purine bases appears to be a common feature of camel liver. Hepatic guanine appears to be actively converted into GMP in the camel rather than further degraded. The limiting step of guanine degradation appears to be the lack of hepatic guanase activity. Higher purine bases over uric acid ratios were found in camel urine with respect to those of zebu.
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