Interaction of oxidative stress, astrocyte swelling and cerebral ammonia toxicity

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-92

  Häussinger, Dieter ^a   Görg, Boris ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Hepatic encephalopathy; NADPH oxidase; Protein tyrosine nitration; RNA oxidation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; RNA; TYROSINE; ZINC;

ASTROCYTE; CELL SWELLING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; NEUROTOXICITY; NITRATION; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; ZINC METABOLISM;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NITROSATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEINS; RNA; TYROSINE; ZINC;

EID: 73849102776     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e328333b829     Document Type: Review

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