Hyperammonemia: Regulation of argininosuccinate synthetase and argininosuccinate lyase genes in aggregating cell cultures of fetal rat brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-92

  Braissant, Olivier ^a   Honegger, Paul ^b   Loup, Marc ^a   Iwase, Katsuro ^c   Takiguchi, Masaki ^c   Bachmann, Claude ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginine; Argininosuccinate; Astrocyte; Brain; Citrulline NO cycle; Hyperammonemia

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARGININE; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; ARGININOSUCCINIC ACID; CITRULLINE; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TELENCEPHALON;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; BRAIN; CELL AGGREGATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; RATS;

EID: 0033532234     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00274-8     Document Type: Article

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