Glucose loading precipitates acute encephalopathy in thiamin-deficient rats

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-20

  Zimitat, Craig ^a   Nixon, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glucose; Thiamin; Thiamin deficiency; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; THIAMINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA;

EID: 0032897319     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020653312697     Document Type: Article

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