Ammonia mediates cortical hemichannel dysfunction in rodent models of chronic liver disease

Hepatology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1306-1318

  Hadjihambi, Anna ^a,b   De Chiara, Francesco ^a   Hosford, Patrick S ^b   Habtetion, Abeba ^a   Karagiannis, Anastassios ^c   Davies, Nathan ^a   Gourine, Alexander V ^b   Jalan, Rajiv ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; BILIRUBIN; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LACTIC ACID; PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CHANNELOPATHY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART PERFUSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPOXIA; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BILE DUCT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGERY;

AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS; BIOMARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONNEXIN 26; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LACTATES; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 85014592854     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.29031     Document Type: Article

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