Acute liver failure in rats activates glutamine-glutamate cycle but declines antioxidant enzymes to induce oxidative stress in cerebral cortex and cerebellum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Singh, Santosh ^a   Mondal, Papia ^b   Trigun, Surendra K ^b  

^a GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINASE; THIOACETAMIDE; CATALASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; RATS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 84899668314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095855     Document Type: Article

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