How is urea made in the human body

How is urea made in the human body?

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Urea is a product of degradation of amino acids. In the procedure, amino acids lose their amine group which is then converted into ammonia. Liver ammonia reacts with carbon-dioxide to form urea and water, a procedure termed as ureogenesis.

In an intermediary reaction of the ureogenesis, a molecule of ornithine is consumed and the other is produced. For this cause ureogenesis is also termed as the ornithine cycle.

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