Hepatic Encephalopathy: Pathophysiology and Treatment

A. Introduction. - Hepatic Encephalopathy: The Present and the Future,. - B. Pathophysiology of Hepatic Encephalopathy. - The Role of Ammonia and Other Toxins. - Ammonia in Liver and Extrahepatic Tissues: An Overview of Metabolism and Toxicity in Mammals,. - Neurophysiology of Ammonia Intoxication,. - Effect of Portacaval Anastomosis on Ammonia Metabolism in Brain and Liver,. - Selective Inhibition of Mitochondrial Dehydrogenases by Ammonia and Fatty Acyl Coenzyme A Derivatives,. - Acute Action of Ammonia on Leucine Metabolism in Isolated Astrocytes, Neurons, and Oligo Cells of Rat Brain,. - Progressive Hyperammonemia and Insulin Resistance After Portacaval Shunt in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia,. - Mesenteric Venous Stenosis Reduces Hyperammonemia in the Portacaval Shunted Rat,. - Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy Syndrome Due to Urinary Bladder Distention and Infection. - Role of Toxins and Synergism in Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Cerebral Metabolism and Function in Hepatic Failure. - Brain Energy Metabolism in Hepatic Encephalopathy. - In Vivo NMR Spectroscopy Studies of Cerebral Metabolism in Rats After Portacaval Shunting,. - Effects of Hypercarbia and Portacaval Shunting on Amino Acids and High Energy Phosphates of the Rat Brain: a 1H and 31P NMR Study,. - Positron-Emission Tomography in the Study of Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - The Use of Cultured Astrocytes in the Study of Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Brain Edema in Experimental Fulminant Hepatic Failure,. - Encephalopathy of Reye's Syndrome: Studies of the Pathogenic Process in Animal Models,. - The Rat with Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Cirrhosis as a Model of Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - GABA and Benzodiazepine Receptors in Hepatic Encephalopathy. - Hepatic Encephalopathy and Benzodiazepine Receptor Ligands,. - Detection and Characterization of Endogenous Benzodiazepine Activity in Both Animal Models and Humans with Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Isolated CNS Neurons from a Model of Hepatic Encephalopathy Exhibit Increased Sensitivity to a Benzodiazepine,. - Studies of Central and "Peripheral-Type" Benzodiazepine Receptors in Autopsied Brain Tissue from Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Ro 15-1788 Kinetics are Markedly Impaired in Cirrhotic Patients,. - Plasma GABA-like Factor in Hepatic Encephalopathy May Be Taurine,. - Diazepam Metabolism in Perfused Cultures of Adult Rat Hepatocytes,. - Other Neurotransmitter Systems (amines, amino acids, peptides) in Hepatic Encephalopathy. - Hepatocerebral Dysfunction and Brain Serotonin,. - Biogenic Amines in Hepatic Encephalopathy: Evidence for Increased Serotonin Turnover in Human Brain,. - Increased Serotoninergic and Noradrenergic Activity in an Experimental Model of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Rats,. - Excitatory Amino Acids and Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Activities of Glutamate-Related Enzymes in Autopsied Brain Tissue from Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Does Ammonia Exert its Neurotoxicity Through an Inhibition of Transmitter Glutamate Synthesis? - Beta-Endorphin and Opiate Receptor Changes in Acute and Chronic Models of Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - C. Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy. - Update of Existing Therapeutic Approaches. - Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy. New Perspectives on Old Ideas,. - Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy with Lactulose and Antibiotics,. - Nutritional Therapy of Portal-Systemic Encephalopathy: The Branched-Chain Amino Acid Story,. - Nutrition, Diet, and Hepatic Encephalopathy,. - Partial Portal Decompression: Initial Clinical Experience with Small-Stoma Portacaval Shunt,. - Potential Therapeutic Use of Benzodiazepine Antagonists. - Benzodiazepine-Antagonist (Ro 15-1788) Flumazenil, Anexate(R), Pharmacokinetics, and Therapeutic Applications,. - Effects of the Benzodiazepine Antagonist Flumazenil in Hepatic Encephalopathy in Man,. - Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy with the Benzodiazepine Antagonist Flumazenil.