NMDA receptors in hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 321-335

  Llansola, Marta ^a   Rodrigo, Regina ^a   Monfort, Pilar ^a   Montoliu, Carmina ^b   Kosenko, Elena ^c   Cauli, Omar ^a   Piedrafita, Blanca ^a   El Mlili, Nisrin ^a   Felipo, Vicente ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ammonia toxicity; Cognitive impairment; Hepatic encephalopathy; Hyperammonemia; Neurological alterations; NMDA receptors

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYCLIC GMP; DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETAMINE; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; SILDENAFIL; ZAPRINAST;

BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; IN VIVO STUDY; INTOXICATION; LEARNING; LIVER FAILURE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYCLIC GMP; FREE RADICALS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER FAILURE; NITRIC OXIDE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35449006358     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-007-9067-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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