uncovered a critical link between defects in the urea cycle, a key process in detoxifying ammonia in the body, and the development of fatty liver disease. Conducted during his time at Washington ...

However, if urea is applied to the soil surface, a meaningful fraction of applied fertilizer nitrogen may be lost to the atmosphere as ammonia gas; this only occurs under certain conditions. For ...

Zevra Therapeutics has partnered with the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation to run an awareness campaign designed to ...

LENNOX, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The community of Lennox has been rallying around a baby boy with a rare condition. Chris and ...

is in Phase 1 trials for the treatment of urea cycle disorders, a 'group of severe, inherited metabolic diseases' that produces an inability to metabolize ammonia, leading to neurologic ...

Sandra A. Banta-Wright, MN, RNC, NNP; Robert D. Steiner, MD Neonates with profound and prolonged hyperammonemia with coma due to urea cycle defect will have had a neurological insult to the brain ...

Our preclinical studies have demonstrated that by modulating the activity of the target regRNA, CMP-CPS-001 increases the levels of a key enzyme in the urea cycle, which allows for more ammonia to be ...

UCDs disrupt the body's urea cycle, and therefore, the body is unable to remove the dangerous buildup of toxic chemicals, particularly ammonia, that are created from the digestion of protein.