Amino Acid Changes in Autopsied Brain Tissue from Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 692-697

  Lavoie, Joël ^a   Giguère, Jean‐Francois ^a   Layrargues, Gilles Pomier ^a   Butterworth, Roger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEPATIC COMA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AMINO ACIDS; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATES; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023176895     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1987.tb00949.x     Document Type: Article

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