S. P. Mongia ¹, H. S. Sharma ¹, C. R. Vyas ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, R. N. T. Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

It has been reported by Folin that the daily excretion of creatinine is fairly constant at different ages, which can serve as an index of endogenous protein metabolism and is independent of dietary protein intake while these views were opposed by Fisher and Karambelkar et al Nakagawa et al have reported that wide variation occurred in total urinary creatinine excretion per day in animal kept on different dietary protein intake.

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T. C. Appanna ¹, C. R. Vyas ¹

Affiliations
1 Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

Folin in his classic studies on protein metabolism conceived the idea that excretion of creatinine in adult animals and man was constant as a result of protein manipulation. Though this has been widely accepted, a few divergent reports suggesting inconstancy of creatinine excretion have appeared.

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