...Elina G. Manzhalii; Tetyana M. Falalyeyeva; Valentyna O. Moyseyenko; Ralf Weiskirchen; Wolfgang Stremmel Background: The pathophysiology of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is incompletely understood. It remains elusive how the contributing factors of neuronal ammonia accumulation, cell swelling...

...) is one of the main causes of reentry to the emergency department. Oxidative stress (OxS) regulated by ammonia leads to cerebral edema and astrocytes senescence in animal models, but seems to be different in humans. Objective: To analyze if OxS and ammonia in plasma are related to each other...

...Elina Manzhalii; Oleksandr Virchenko; Tetyana Falalyeyeva; Valentyna Moiseienko; Taras Nykula; Vitaliy Kondratiuk; Olexiy Savchuk; Tetyana Beregova; Wolfgang Stremmel Background: The pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is only partially understood. Beside ammonia accumulation in brain...

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... to reduce the breakdown of other nitrogen-containing compounds to ammonia and other potential cerebral toxins. The administration of lactulose to humans causes an increase in fecal nitrogen, but very little increase in ammonia nitrogen. Most of the nitrogen is contained in the fecal bacterial...