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Details the brain damage that can result from high ammonia levels in the blood because of a damaged liver, and both traditional and proposed new methods for mitigating it, including nutritional approaches. The 12 papers are the lectures presented at a summer course in El Escorial, Spain, August 1992. Among the topics are the control of urea synthesis and ammonia detoxification, brain metabolism, benzodiazepine ligands, neuronal function, and cerebral protein breakdown. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
