Ammonia downregulates GLAST mRNA glutamate transporter in rat astrocyte cultures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 145-148

  Zhou, Bo Guang ^b   Norenberg, Michael D ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Astrocytes; Glutamate transporters; Glutamate uptake; Hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL CULTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWN-REGULATION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032695071     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00816-2     Document Type: Article

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