Modulation by kynurenine of extracellular kynurenate and glutamate in cerebral cortex of rats with acute liver failure

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 466-470

  Hilgier, Wojciech ^a   Kocki, Tomasz ^a   Obara Michlewska, Marta ^a   Turski, Waldemar A ^b   Oja, Simo S ^c   Saransaari, Pirjo ^c   Albrecht, Jan ^c  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cultured astrocytes; Glutamate; Hepatic encephalopathy; Kynurenic acid; Kynurenine

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE II; MESSENGER RNA; THIOACETAMIDE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINOTRANSFERASE; KYNURENINE-OXOGLUTARATE TRANSAMINASE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84901449061     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharep.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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