Oral administration of sildenafil restores learning ability in rats with hyperammonemia and with portacaval shunts

Hepatology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 299-306

  Erceg, Slaven ^a   Monfort, Pilar ^a   Hernández Viadel, Mariluz ^a   Rodrigo, Regina ^a   Montoliu, Carmina ^b   Felipo, Vicente ^a,c  

^a Fund Valenciana de Invest Biomed   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^c Laboratorio de Neurobiologia de Prince Felipe Research Centre   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYCLIC GMP; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; SILDENAFIL;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; IN VIVO STUDY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEARNING; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYCLIC GMP; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LEARNING; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NITRIC OXIDE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 12844262177     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20565     Document Type: Article

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