Recovery from Liver Failure and Fibrosis in a Rat Portacaval Anastomosis Model after Neurointermediate Pituitary Lobectomy [PDF]
Journal of Immunology Research, 2021 Liver diseases, including cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, and hepatocellular carcinoma, account for approximately two million annual deaths worldwide.
Martín Muñoz-Ortega +7 more
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External Hemorrhage from a Portacaval Anastomosis in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis [PDF]
Case Reports in Hepatology, 2014 Variceal bleeding is the major complication of portal hypertension in patients with liver cirrhosis. Hemorrhage mainly occurs in gastrointestinal lumen. Extraluminal hemorrhages are quite rare, such as intraperitoneal hemorrhages.
Murat Biyik +8 more
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Reduced Liver Lipid Peroxidation in Subcellular Fractions Is Associated with a Hypometabolic State in Rats with Portacaval Anastomosis. [PDF]
Oxid Med Cell Longev, 2019 A surgical connection between portal and inferior cava veins was performed to generate an experimental model of high circulating ammonium and hepatic hypofunctioning.
Vázquez-Martínez O +8 more
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Phosphate-activated glutaminase activity is enhanced in brain, intestine and kidneys of rats following portacaval anastomosis. [PDF]
World J Gastroenterol, 2006 AIM To assess whether portacaval anastomosis (PCA) in rats affects the protein expression and/or activity of glutaminase in kidneys, intestines and in three brain areas of cortex, basal ganglia and cerebellum and to explain the neurological alterations ...
Romero-Gomez M +8 more
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Portacaval anastomosis promotes fragmentation of mitochondrial network in the cerebellum of male rats. [PDF]
Metab Brain DisPortacaval anastomosis (PCA) is a model for hypometabolic liver dysfunction. Spongiform neurodegeneration has been detected in the cerebellum of PCA rats 13 weeks after surgery. This report characterizes the damage associated with spongiform degeneration
López-Cervantes M +7 more
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Cholesterol homeostasis in the rat with a portacaval anastomosis. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1979 Proia A +3 more
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Fifteen-year survival following portacaval anastomosis. [PDF]
Proc R Soc Med, 1970 Kirkham JS, Tanner NC.
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Treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia by portacaval anastomosis: effect on cholesterol metabolism and pool sizes. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1983 McNamara DJ +7 more
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Metabolic reprogramming during hyperammonemia targets mitochondrial function and postmitotic senescence [PDF]
JCI Insight, 2021 Ammonia is a cytotoxic metabolite with pleiotropic molecular and metabolic effects, including senescence induction. During dysregulated ammonia metabolism, which occurs in chronic diseases, skeletal muscle becomes a major organ for nonhepatocyte ammonia ...
Avinash Kumar +15 more
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