The liver carnitine pool reflects alterations in hepatic fatty acid metabolism in rats with bile duct ligation before and after biliodigestive anastomosis

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 242-248

  Wächter, Sandra ^a   Krähenbühl, Lukas ^a   Schäfer, Markus ^a   Krähenbühl, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acylcarnitines; Carnitine; Cholestasis; Fatty acid metabolism; Ketogenesis

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT LIGATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KETOGENESIS; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 0344528656     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(99)80069-5     Document Type: Article

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