Blood ammonia levels and hepatic encephalopathy

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 345-349

  Lockwood, Alan H ^a  

^a VA W New York Hlthcare Syst U   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; blood brain barrier; hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; METABOLIC RATE; PATHOGENESIS;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; GASES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS;

EID: 5444263019     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEBR.0000043980.74574.eb     Document Type: Conference Paper

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