Severity of hyperammonemic encephalopathy correlates with brain ammonia level and saturation of glutamine synthetase in vivo

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1584-1594

  Kanamori, Keiko ^a   Ross, Brian D ^a   Chung, Jackie C ^a   Kuo, Emily L ^a  

^a HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia neurotoxicity; Glutamine synthetase; Hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029788778     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.67041584.x     Document Type: Article

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