Ammonia

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A gas nanosensor unaffected by humidity. 
  • A new face of the Rhesus antigen. 
  • Ammonia metabolism in Reye syndrome and the effect of citrulline. 
  • An automated dry-slide enzymatic method evaluated for measurement of creatinine in serum. 
  • Application of a moving bed biofilm reactor for tertiary ammonia treatment in high temperature industrial wastewater. 
  • Chronic sodium benzoate therapy in children with inborn errors of urea synthesis: effect on carnitine metabolism and ammonia nitrogen removal. 
  • Comparison of the functional differences for the homologous residues within the carboxy phosphate and carbamate domains of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. 
  • Discovery of the aquaporins and development of the field. 
  • Effects of ammonium ion derived from bovine endothelial cells upon low density lipoprotein degradation in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells. 
  • Effects of selected pharmaceutically active compounds on the ammonia oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. 
  • Electrical and gas sensing properties of polyaniline functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes. 
  • Encephalopathy of Reye's syndrome: a review of pathogenetic hypotheses. 
  • Estimation of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks in a fertilized Zea mays field. 
  • Estimation of myocardial blood flow for longitudinal studies with 13N-labeled ammonia and positron emission tomography. 
  • Experimental and theoretical examination of surface energy and adhesion of nitrifying and heterotrophic bacteria using self-assembled monolayers. 
  • Extracorporeal liver perfusion using human and pig livers for acute liver failure. 
  • Glutamine induces heat shock protein and protects against endotoxin shock in the rat. 
  • Hyperammonemia associated with perinatal asphyxia. 
  • Hyperammonemia in the ICU. 
  • Hyperammonemia in women with a mutation at the ornithine carbamoyltransferase locus. A cause of postpartum coma. 
  • Hyperornithinaemia-hyperammonaemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome is caused by mutations in a gene encoding a mitochondrial ornithine transporter. 
  • Idiopathic hyperammonemia following an unrelated cord blood transplant for mucopolysaccharidosis I. 
  • Imaging of the human heart after administration of L-(N-13)glutamate. 
  • In vitro biochemistry of trabecular meshwork. 
  • Incorporation of non-proteolytic proteins by murine alpha2-macroglobulin. 
  • Interaction of nutrition and binge ethanol treatment on brain damage and withdrawal. 
  • Ischemic hibernating myocardium demonstrated by positron emission tomography in anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. 
  • Liver-specific loss of beta-catenin blocks glutamine synthesis pathway activity and cytochrome p450 expression in mice. 
  • Multiple horizontal gene transfers of ammonium transporters/ammonia permeases from prokaryotes to eukaryotes: toward a new functional and evolutionary classification. 
  • Necrotizing enterocolitis in the asphyxiated full-term infant. 
  • Permeability properties of the mammalian bladder apical membrane. 
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the atmospheres of Titan and Jupiter. 
  • Prenatal counseling in heterozygotes for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. 
  • Pretransplant status and patient survival following liver transplantation. 
  • Prospective treatment of urea cycle disorders. 
  • Reassessing the role of astrocytes in ammonia neurotoxicity. 
  • Removal of ammonia from contaminated air in a biotrickling filter - denitrifying bioreactor combination system. 
  • Revisiting the steady state kinetic mechanism of glutamine-dependent asparagine synthetase from Escherichia coli. 
  • Roles of glutamine synthetase inhibition in epilepsy. 
  • Sensing the environment: lessons from fungi. 
  • Siroheme: a new prosthetic group participating in six-electron reduction reactions catalyzed by both sulfite and nitrite reductases. 
  • Spatially refined aerosol direct radiative forcing efficiencies. 
  • Surgical portosystemic shunts for treatment of portal hypertensive bleeding: outcome and effect on liver function. 
  • The balance of the evidence on acid-base homeostasis and progression of chronic kidney disease. 
  • The dynamics of ammonia metabolism in man. Effects of liver disease and hyperammonemia. 
  • The effect of hydraulic lift on organic matter decomposition, soil nitrogen cycling, and nitrogen acquisition by a grass species. 
  • The effect of metabolic milieu on cardiac PET imaging using fluorine-18-deoxyglucose and nitrogen-13-ammonia in normal volunteers. 
  • The ischemic exercise test in normal adults and in patients with weakness and cramps. 
  • Unprecedented loss of ammonia assimilation capability in a urease-encoding bacterial mutualist. 
  • Urea-cycle enzyme deficiencies and an increased nitrogen load producing hyperammonemia in Reye's syndrome. 
  • Uricolysis in normal man. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Reiman Jr., Robert Ellis, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Professor of Earth Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Turkington, Timothy Garvey, Associate Professor in Radiology, Radiology