Positron emission tomography of hepatic first-pass metabolism of ammonia in pig

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1770-1775

  Keiding, Susanne ^a   Munk, Ole Lajord ^a   Roelsgaard, Klaus ^a   Bender, Dirk ^a   Bass, Ludvik ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Liver drug metabolism; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUTAMINE; UREA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN; CLEARANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; FIRST PASS EFFECT; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; LIVER SINUSOID; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SWINE; UREA CYCLE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; GLUTAMINE; LIVER; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; UREA;

EID: 0035215103     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-001-0659-3     Document Type: Article

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