Taurine, glutamine, glutamate, and aspartate content and efflux, and cell volume of cerebrocortical minislices of rats with hepatic encephalopathy: Influence of ammonia

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 483, Issue , 2000, Pages 305-312

  Hilgier, Wojciech ^a   Law, Robert O ^b   Zielińska, Magdalena ^a   Albrecht, Jan ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SIZE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL SIZE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAURINE;

EID: 0034584309     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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