An Indiana University School of Medicine physician scientist is making strides in understanding the molecular origins of fatty liver disease, a leading cause of liver failure in the United States.

Sandra A. Banta-Wright, MN, RNC, NNP; Robert D. Steiner, MD Neonates with profound and prolonged hyperammonemia with coma due to urea cycle defect will have had a neurological insult to the brain ...

The body, in this case, doesn’t process proteins normally and overproduces argininosuccinic acid and ammonia, which are involved in the waste or “urea cycle.” One of the study’s ...