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Schematic illustrating (i) a vicious cycle in which ammonia detoxification to glutamine (GLN) in skeletal muscle leads to the enhanced formation of ammonia in enterocytes and kidneys in subjects with liver injury (Holecek 2014), and (ii) proposed mechanism by which phenylbutyrate stops the cycle and enhances ammonia disposal from the body.
