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 ...
XANTHINE oxidase (xanthine: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.2.3.2) catalyses the oxidation of hypoxanthine to xanthine and of xanthine to uric acid. The increased excretion of hypoxanthine and xanthine, ...