Lack of acute tolerance development to the subjective, cognitive, and psychomotor effects of nitrous oxide in healthy volunteers

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 501-508

  Yajnik, Santosh ^a   Zacny, James P ^a   Young, Christopher J ^a   Lichtor, J Lance ^a   Rupani, Gita ^a   Klafta, Jerome M ^a   Coalson, Dennis W ^a   Apfelbaum, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute drug tolerance; Cognition; General anesthetic; Humans; Mood; Nitrous oxide; Psychomotor; Subjective

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0030001409     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(95)02278-3     Document Type: Article

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