Impairment of short term memory in rats with hepatic encephalopathy due to bile duct ligation

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-192

  Leke, Renata ^a,b   Oliveira, Diogo L ^b   Forgiarini, Luiz F ^a   Escobar, Thayssa D C ^a   Hammes, Thais O ^a   Meyer, Fabíola S ^a   Keiding, Susanne ^d   Silveira, Themis R ^a,b   Schousboe, Arne ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bile duct ligated rats; Hepatic encephalopathy; Long term memory; Object recognition; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMMONIA; TRAMADOL;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENLARGED ABDOMEN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOLOGY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RAT; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; ANIMAL; BILE DUCT; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIGATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIGATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84878020136     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-012-9347-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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