Hyperammonemia impairs NMDA receptor-dependent long-term potentiation in the CA1 of rat hippocampus in vitro

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 437-441

  Muñoz, María Dolores ^a   Monfort, Pilar ^b   Gaztelu, José María ^a   Felipo, Vicente ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glutamatergic system; Hepatic encephalopathy; Learning; Memory; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RETT SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0342313714     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007547622844     Document Type: Article

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