Pathophysiology of alcoholic brain damage: synergistic effects of ethanol, thiamine deficiency and alcoholic liver disease

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-8

  Butterworth, Roger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcoholic brain damage; Alcoholic liver disease; Cerebral energy deficit; Ethanol neurotoxicity; Hepatic Encephalopathy; NMDA receptors; Thiamine deficiency

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; ENERGY METABOLISM; ETHANOL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM; GLUCOSE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0028900415     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01991777     Document Type: Article

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