The gut does not contribute to systemic ammonia release in humans without portosystemic shunting

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Van De Poll, Marcel C G ^a   Ligthart Melis, Gerdien C ^b   Olde Damink, Steven W M ^a   Van Leeuwen, Paul A M ^b   Beets Tan, Regina G H ^a   Deutz, Nicolaas E P ^a   Wigmore, Stephen J ^c   Soeters, Peter B ^a   Dejong, Cornelis H C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Interorgan; Kidney; Liver

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA FORMATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIA; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; HEPATECTOMY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 57449117302     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00333.2007     Document Type: Article

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