Xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH), a rate-limiting enzyme involved in purine metabolism, has an essential role in inflammatory cascades. Researchers have known for decades that XDH activity is decreased in ...
CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XORTX Therapeutics Inc. ("XORTX" or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: XRTX | TSXV: XRTX | Frankfurt: ANU), a late-stage clinical pharmaceutical company ...
IN 1954 Dent and Philpot 1 presented an account of xanthinuria observed in a four-year-old girl. She had only traces of uric acid in the blood and urine. Urinary excretion of purines consisted mainly ...
For gout, xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitors are the choice for first-line urate-lowering therapy (ULT) according to the 2020 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout, which ...
SINCE its clinical introduction in 1964, allopurinol (4-hydroxypyrazolo-[3,4-d]-pyrimidine) has been increasingly used for the treatment of hyperuricemia of gout, 1, 2 many neoplastic diseases and ...