Ammonia upregulates kynurenine aminotransferase II mRNA expression in rat brain: A role for astrocytic NMDA receptors?

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-165

  Obara Michlewska, Marta ^a   Tuszyńska, Paulina ^b   Albrecht, Jan ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Astrocytic NMDA receptor; Hepatic encephalopathy; Thioacetamide

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE II; MEMANTINE; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; THIOACETAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARCINOGEN; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; KYNURENINE-OXOGLUTARATE TRANSAMINASE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TOXICITY; UPREGULATION;

RATTUS;

AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARCINOGENS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MEMANTINE; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; THIOACETAMIDE; TRANSAMINASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84878019912     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-012-9353-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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