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IF, as Van Slyke, Philips, Hamilton, Archibald, Futcher and Hiller1 suggest, urinary ammonia is mainly produced in the kidney from glutamine, it is possible that changes which increase or decrease the amount of ammonia produced might increase or decrease the amount of renal glutaminase. Such adaptation, if it occurred, would support the view that glutaminase is in fact involved in the production of urinary ammonia.
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DAVIES, B., YUDKIN, J. Role of Glutaminase in the Production of Urinary Ammonia. Nature 167, 117 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167117a0
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