urate
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A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.
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Cade found that in the guinea pigs injected with the lithium urate solution, toxicity was greatly reduced. citation However, his use of careful controls in his experiments revealed that the lithium ion had a calming effect by itself.
An evolutionary loss of urate oxidase (uricase), which breaks down uric acid, in humans and higher primates has made this condition common.
As its second ionization is so weak, the full urate salts tend to hydrolyze back to hydrogen urate salts and free base at pH values around neutral.
These patients also have a tendency to form urate stones.