Inhibition of a fast inwardly rectifying potassium conductance by barbiturates

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1242-1246

  Gibbons, Simon J ^a   Núñez Hernández, Ramón ^a   Mazét, Ghislaine ^a   Harrison, Neu L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BARIUM ION; CESIUM ION; METHOHEXITAL; PENTOBARBITAL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DOSE RESPONSE; GRANULOCYTE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEDATION;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRANULOCYTES; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHOHEXITAL; PENTOBARBITAL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS;

EID: 0029924823     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199606000-00024     Document Type: Article

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