end product of nucleic acid degradation
Uric acid is a waste product created when your body breaks down nucleic acids, which are the molecules that make up DNA and RNA. Your kidneys filter it out and eliminate it through urine, but when levels get too high in the blood, it can form crystals that cause gout and other health problems.
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Names
Preferred IUPAC name 7,9-Dihydro-1H-purine-2,6,8(3H)-trione
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).