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Passage of amino acids and glucose across the blood-brain barrier in patients with hepatic encephalopathy

✍ Gitte M. Knudsen; Jes Schmidt; Thomas Almdal; Olaf B. Paulson; Hendrik Vilstrup 📂 Article 📅 1993 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 730 KB

We repeatedly measured blood-brain barrier passage of phenylalanine, leucine, glucose and GABA in nine patients with hepatic encephalopathy using the intravenous double-indicator technique. Controls were four patients without liver disease and two of the patients who had recovered completely from th