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Urea: A product of protein breakdown of amino acids, excreted in the urine.
Urea Cycle: A metabolic process in which waste (nitrogen) from the breakdown of proteins in the body is changed by the liver into a urea, excreted in the urine.
Ureagenesis: The transformation of proteins to a urea compound that can be excreted in the urine.

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The Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC) is part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and led by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) through its Division of Rare Diseases Research Innovation (DRDRI). UCDC is funded under grant number U54HD061221 as a collaboration between NCATS, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). This website is hosted by the network’s Data Management and Coordinating Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, which is funded by NCATS and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under grant number TR002818. The content of this website is solely the responsibility of the UCDC, whose administrative coordinating center is located at Children’s National Research and Innovation (Children’s Research Institute), and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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