Ammonia detoxification via ureagenesis in rat hepatocytes involves mitochondrial aquaporin-8 channels

Hepatology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2061-2071

  Soria, Leandro R ^a   Marrone, Julieta ^a   Calamita, Giuseppe ^b   Marinelli, Raúl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; AQUAPORIN 8; GLUCAGON; GLUTAMINE; METHYLAMINE; NITROGEN 15; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION; UREA CYCLE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GLUCAGON; HEPATOCYTES; MALE; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; UP-REGULATION; UREA;

EID: 84876736793     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26236     Document Type: Article

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