Oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 313-329

  Norenberg, M D ^a   Jayakumar, A R ^a   Rama Rao, K V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; cell swelling; free radicals; glutamine; manganese; mitochondrial permeability transition; peripheral benzodiazepine receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4' CHLORODIAZEPAM; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMMONIA; ANTIOXIDANT; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CATALASE; DEFEROXAMINE; DIAZEPAM; GLUTAMINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MANGANESE; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; N SEC BUTYL 1 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) N METHYL 3 ISOQUINOLINECARBOXAMIDE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN EDEMA; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SWELLING; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; GLUTAMINE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; NERVE DEGENERATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 5444262536     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEBR.0000043978.91675.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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