Synaptosomal uptake of alpha-ketoglutarate and glutamine in thioacetamide-induced hepatic encephalopathy in rats

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 281-286

  Albrecht, Jan ^a,b   Waskiewicz, Jolanta ^a   Dolinska, Monika ^a   Rafalowska, Urszula ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

ketoglutarate; Glutamine; Hepatic encephalopathy; Synaptosomes; Thioacetamide; Uptake

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; GLUTAMINE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTOSOMES; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031407167     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022374109070     Document Type: Article

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