Ammonium metabolism in humans

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1495-1511

  Adeva, Maria M ^a   Souto, Gema ^b   Blanco, Natalia ^c   Donapetry, Cristóbal ^a  

^a Hospital General Juan Cardona   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c United Surgical Partners la Coruña   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutaminase; Glutamine synthetase; Hyperammonemia; Metabolic alkalosis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BICARBONATE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; NITROGEN; VALPROIC ACID;

ACID BASE BALANCE; BARTH SYNDROME; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CELL METABOLISM; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CYTOSOL; ERYTHROCYTE; GAS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPERVENTILATION; KIDNEY METABOLISM; LIVER CLEARANCE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYSINURIC PROTEIN INTOLERANCE; MEDIUM CHAIN ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; REVIEW; REYE SYNDROME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; UREA CYCLE; UREA CYCLE DISORDER; URINARY EXCRETION;

HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84867865275     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2012.07.007     Document Type: Review

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