Nitrous oxide or halothane, or both, fail to suppress c-fos expression in rat spinal cord dorsal horn neurones after subcutaneous formalin

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-105

  Sun, W Z ^a,b   Shyu, B C ^a   Shieh, J Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anaesthetics gases, nitrous oxide; Anaesthetics i.v., fentanyl; Anaesthetics volatile, halothane; Analgesia, pre emptive; Genetic factors, proto oncogenes; Rat

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; FORMALDEHYDE; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERALGESIA; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030045542     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/76.1.99     Document Type: Article

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