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Renal ammonium excretion after an acute acid load: blunted response in uric acid stone formers but not in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Abstract
Idiopathic uric acid nephrolithiasis is characterized by elevated urinary net acid excretion and insufficient buffering by ammonium, resulting in excessively acidic urine and titration of the relatively soluble urate anion to insoluble uric acid. Patients with type 2 diabetes have similar changes in urinary pH, net acid excretion, and ammonium in 24-h urine collections at baseline, even after controlling for dietary factors, and are at increased risk for uric acid nephrolithiasis. However, not all patients with type 2 diabetes develop kidney stones, suggesting that uric acid stone formers may have additional urinary defects, perhaps not apparent at baseline. We performed a metabolic study of 14 patients with idiopathic uric acid nephrolithiasis, 13 patients with type 2 diabetes, and 8 healthy control subjects of similar body mass index. After equilibration on a fixed diet for 5 days, subjects were given a single oral acid load (50 meq ammonium chloride), and urine was collected hourly for 4 h. Uric acid stone formers had a lower ammonium excretory response to acute acid loading compared with diabetic and nondiabetic nonstone formers, suggesting that an ammonium excretory defect unique to uric acid stone formers was unmasked by the acid challenge. The Zucker diabetic fatty rat also did not show impaired urinary ammonium excretion in response to acute acid challenge. A blunted renal ammonium excretory response to dietary acid loads may contribute to the pathogenesis of idiopathic uric acid nephrolithiasis.
AuthorsI Alexandru Bobulescu, Naim M Maalouf, Giovanna Capolongo, Beverley Adams-Huet, Tara R Rosenthal, Orson W Moe, Khashayar Sakhaee
JournalAmerican journal of physiology. Renal physiology (Am J Physiol Renal Physiol) Vol. 305 Issue 10 Pg. F1498-503 (Nov 15 2013) ISSN: 1522-1466 [Electronic] United States
PMID24026180 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Biomarkers
  • Ammonium Chloride
  • Uric Acid
Topics
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Ammonium Chloride (administration & dosage, urine)
  • Animals
  • Biomarkers (blood, urine)
  • Body Mass Index
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 (blood, complications, urine)
  • Diet
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Kidney (metabolism)
  • Kidney Calculi (blood, etiology, urine)
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Rats
  • Rats, Zucker
  • Time Factors
  • Uric Acid (urine)

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