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Hepatocyte nitric oxide biosynthesis inhibits glucose output and competes with urea synthesis for L-arginine

J Stadler1, D Barton, H Beil-Moeller

  • 1Department of Surgery, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

The American Journal of Physiology
|January 1, 1995
PubMed

Keywords:
Nitric oxide liver functionHepatocyte metabolismGlucose production inhibitionUrea synthesis regulationChronic sepsis liver dysfunction

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