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Human Oxalate—Really Just an End‐Product of Metabolism?
Author(s) -
Albrecht Steffen,
Brandl Herbert,
Schönfels Christoph
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199417801
Subject(s) - calcium oxalate , oxalate , chemistry , kidney stones , metabolism , salt (chemistry) , biochemistry , extracellular , kidney , biology , endocrinology , medicine , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry
Red and white blood cells contain oxalate at concentrations more than 100 times higher than extracellular levels. This surprising result was obtained by sensitive and specific chemoluminometric measurements for the determination of oxalate in human body fluids. It is not yet known whether oxalate has any useful physiological function in humans; it is excreted and the calcium salt crystallizes as gall and kidney stones.