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
Extra- and intracellular amino acids in the hippocampus during development of hepatic encephalopathy
✍ Scribed by A. Hamberger; B. Nyström
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 842 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-3190
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