Neuronal cell death in hepatic encephalopathy

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 309-320

  Butterworth, Roger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acquired hepatocerebral degeneration; Cerebellar degeneration; Cytokines; Excitotoxicity; Hepatic Encephalopathy; Oxidative nitrosative stress; Parkinsonism; Post shunt myelopathy; Wernicke's Encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; THIAMINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELL LOSS; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NITROSATIVE STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSONISM; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN INTAKE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WILSON DISEASE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; NEURONS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EID: 35448969806     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-007-9072-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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