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The influence of zinc and citrate on urease-induced urine crystallisation
H Hedelin1, L Grenabo, J Hugosson
1Department of Urology, Sahlgrenska Hospital, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Urological Research
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Zinc reduced and citrate promoted the urease-induced pH increase in synthetic urine. Secondary to this, the precipitation of magnesium ammonium phosphate and calcium phosphate was influenced. Independent of this pH-related effect, zinc also increased the precipitation of magnesium ammonium phosphate and decreased the calcium phosphate precipitation. These observations were not totally reproducable in human urine.