Message Number: SG9526 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-07-11 06:24:01 UTC
Subject: Re: cystine stones and protein
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4393993.1089527041393.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

In the download from

www.vet.ohio-state.edu/docs/VM602/notes/lith.doc =

which appears to be teaching material on uroliths for a vet school it is no=
ted:

>5. Canine cystinuria is an inherited =

>disorder of renal tubular transport =

>involving cystine or cystine and other =

>amino acids (often ornithine, lysine, =

>and arginine - the so-called =93COLA=94 =

>group of amino acids). Not all dogs
> with cystinuria develop urolithiasis. =

> Therefore, cystinuria is considered to =

>be a predisposing rather than a primary =

>causative factor.

and

>a. The role of diet in the pathogenesis =

>of most types of urolithiasis in dogs and =

>cats is unknown
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