Ammonia-induced brain swelling and neurotoxicity in an organotypic slice model

Neurological Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1100-1108

  Back, Adam ^a   Tupper, Kelsey Y ^a   Bai, Tao ^a   Chiranand, Paulpoj ^a   Goldenberg, Fernando D ^a   Frank, Jeffrey I ^a   Brorson, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Ammonia; Cerebral edema; Optical coherence tomography; Organotypic slice culture

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIUM ACETATE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGANOTYPIC SLICE CULTURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84555205690     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132811Y.0000000046     Document Type: Article

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