Contrasting effects of thioacetamide-induced liver damage on the brain uptake indices of ornithine, arginine and lysine: Modulation by treatment with ornithine aspartate

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-237

  Albrecht, Jan ^a   Hilgier, Wojciech ^a   Januszewski, Stawomir ^a   Quack, Günther ^b  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b MERZ PHARMACEUTICALS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arginine; Brain uptake index; Liver failure; Lysine; Ornithine; Ornithine aspartate treatment; Thioacetamide

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LYSINE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE ASPARTATE; THIOACETAMIDE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HYPERLYSINEMIA; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UREA CYCLE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; DIPEPTIDES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LYSINE; MALE; ORNITHINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029829142     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02237960     Document Type: Article

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