Serum amino acid changes in rats with thioacetamide-induced liver cirrhosis

Toxicology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 197-206

  Fontana, Luis ^a   Moreira, Eliane ^a   Torres, María Isabel ^a   Fernández, María Isabel ^a   Ríos, Antonio ^a   Sánchez De Medina, Fermín ^a   Gil, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Liver cirrhosis; Thioacetamide (TAA); Threonine deaminase; Transaminases

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARGININE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LIVER ENZYME; LYSINE; METHIONINE; ORNITHINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE; TAURINE; THIOACETAMIDE; THREONINE; THREONINE DEHYDRATASE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; FEMALE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERUM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; DRINKING; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOACETAMIDE; THREONINE DEHYDRATASE; TRANSAMINASES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0030028751     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-483X(95)03177-H     Document Type: Article

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