Update on cerebral uptake of blood ammonia

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-159

  Sørensen, Michael ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Extraction fraction; Glutamine; Hepatic encephalopathy; Permeability surface area product; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIUM UPTAKE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; METABOLISM; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HAPLORHINI; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84878018912     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-013-9395-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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