Identification of osmosensitive and ammonia-regulated genes in rat astrocytes by Northern blotting and differential display reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 358-366

  Warskulat, Ulrich ^a   Kreuels, Sabine ^a   Werner Müller, Hans ^a   Häussinger, Dieter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Anisoosmolarity; Astrocytes; Cell volume; Differential display polymerase chain reaction; Gene expression; Hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CLUSTERIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GLIA CELL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOLALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTERIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034855862     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(01)00149-0     Document Type: Article

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