Role of cerebral endothelial cells in the astrocyte swelling and brain edema associated with acute hepatic encephalopathy

Neuroscience

Volumn 218, Issue , 2012, Pages 305-316

  Jayakumar, A R ^a,b   Tong, X Y ^b   Ospel, J ^a   Norenberg, M D ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Acute hepatic encephalopathy; Astrocyte swelling; Brain endothelial cells; Inflammation; Lipopolysaccharide; Oxidative nitrative stress

Indexed keywords

3 (4 METHYLPHENYLSULFONYL) 2 PROPENENITRILE; AMMONIA; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; I KAPPA B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN EDEMA; CELL CULTURE; CELL SWELLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NITRATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN EDEMA; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84863782846     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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