The renal phenotype of allopurinol-treated HPRT-deficient mouse.

The renal phenotype of allopurinol-treated HPRT-deficient mouse.

Excess of uric acid is mainly treated with xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitors, also called uricostatics because they block the conversion of hypoxanthine and xanthine into urate. Normally, accumulation of upstream metabolites is prevented by the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) en...

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Main Authors: Cristina Zennaro, Federica Tonon, Paola Zarattini, Milan Clai, Alessandro Corbelli, Michele Carraro, Marialaura Marchetti, Luca Ronda, Gianluca Paredi, Maria Pia Rastaldi, Riccardo Percudani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5345830?pdf=render

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