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Why Gout Does Not Happen To Most Other Mammals?
Why Gout Does Not Happen To Most Other Mammals?
Why
W G
Gout D
Does N
Not
Ha
appen
n to Most
M OOther
M
Mamm als?
• Th
hen people will
w nting fingers at the overr
start poin
consumption of high purine fo
oods such as organs meat,
sardine, anchov
vies, mushroomms and the lis
st goes on.
urine is a natu
• Pu ural organic co
ompound exists in all living
thiings. The am
mount of naturally occurrin ng purines on
earth is enormous. Out of fourf bases foound in DNA:
denine, cytosin
ad ne, guanine, and thymine two of them
(addenine and gu
uanine) are foorms of purine
e.
uanine will go
• Gu o through a process
p called deamination
wh
hich break do own guanine tot xanthine b by an enzyme e
called guanase, then anotherr enzyme, xan nthine oxidase
e
will then oxidize
e xanthine to uric
u acid.
cientists believ
• Sc ve that uricasse did exist in
n our ancientt
an
ncestors, but somehow
s alon
ng the processs of evolution,
hu
uman lost the e ability to produce uricasee in the body y
du
ue to some sorrt of enzymatiic defects.