Zonation of alanine metabolism in the bivascularly perfused rat liver

Liver International

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 861-871

  Botini, Fernanda Fonseca ^a   Suzuki Kemmelmeier, Fumie ^a   Nascimento, Écio Alves ^a   Ide, Luci Tiemi ^a   Bracht, Adelar ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alanine; Ammonia; Gluconeogenesis; Glutamine; Liver heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMMONIA; CARBON; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; UREA;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMMONIA FORMATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HEPATIC ARTERY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RAT; UREA CYCLE; VASCULARIZATION; ZONATION;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; CHEMOTHERAPY, CANCER, REGIONAL PERFUSION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE; HEPATIC ARTERY; LIVER; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 20144383906     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2005.01093.x     Document Type: Article

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