Ammonia toxicity: from head to toe?

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 529-538

  Dasarathy, Srinivasan ^a   Mookerjee, Rajeshwar P ^b   Rackayova, Veronika ^c   Rangroo Thrane, Vinita ^d,e   Vairappan, Balasubramaniyan ^f   Ott, Peter ^g   Rose, Christopher F ^h  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^g Department of Medicine V ^*  (Denmark)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Brain; Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver; Muscle; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; UREA;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUSCLE TOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; SARCOPENIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TOXICITY; UREA CYCLE DISORDER; VASCULAR DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 85007239574     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-016-9938-3     Document Type: Article

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