Ethanol concentrations approaching minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration are required to suppress learning in a fear-potentiated startle paradigm in rats

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1398-1403

  Sonner, James M ^a,b   Li, Joana ^a   Kandel, Lori ^a   Eger II, Edmond I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYCLOBUTANE DERIVATIVE; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; FEAR; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0031738128     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199812000-00036     Document Type: Article

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