Chart 34-5 · 13 min
The ammonia door
A read of this page, with the plate.


Glutamate can go two ways. Glutamine synthetase picks ammonia up into glutamine — that is a hold, not a drop. Glutaminase in the liver drops it later. The door that frees ammonia on this hour is NAD and water: glutamate to alpha-ketoglutarate plus free NH3. Niacin as a name. Headache, fatigue, disorientation as pictures. High ammonia belongs with a physician. Hepatitis belongs with a physician. The wheel Course 32 named — ornithine, citrulline, aspartate, arginine. PABA on aspartate as a name. Lithium on arginine as a physician. You send the ammonia to the wheel, or you stop.
Practice
Point NAD, water, NH3. If the room is a high ammonia, you leave.
Check
Back to glutamine drops ammonia:
- The teaching
- Runs backwards — glutamine synthetase picks ammonia up; glutaminase in the liver drops it ✓
- NAD
That's the work.
The door that frees ammonia here:
- Glutamine
- NAD and water — glutamate to alpha-ketoglutarate plus free NH3 ✓
- A dose of ornithine
That's the work.
Niacin on this hour:
- Calcium release
- NAD — not the lateral sacs ✓
- Glutamine synthetase
That's the work.
High ammonia:
- You prescribe glutamine
- A physician ✓
- Picked up as a dose you write
That's the work.
The wheel:
- A student detox kit
- Course 32 — already covered ✓
- Lithium you scoop
That's the work.
Headache, fatigue, disorientation:
- A dose you write
- Pictures of free ammonia ✓
- Synthetase
That's the work.
Hepatitis:
- A dose you write
- A physician ✓
- NAD you scoop
That's the work.
You send the ammonia to the wheel, or:
- You prescribe ornithine
- You stop ✓
- You reverse synthetase
That's the work.
Transamination made the ammonia:
- Yes
- No — transamination does not make ammonia ✓
- Glutaminase here
That's the work.
You do not write a dose from this practice because:
- The door is named ✓
- A blood titer is a doctor's number
- Course 32 said so
That's the work.