Minimum alveolar concentrations of noble gases, nitrogen, and sulfur hexafluoride in rats: Helium and neon as nonimmobilizers (nonanesthetics)

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 419-424

  Koblin, Donald D ^a,b   Fang, Zexu ^b   Eger II, Edmond I ^b,e   Laster, Michael J ^b   Gong, Diane ^b   Ionescu, Pompiliu ^b   Halsey, Michael J ^c   Trudell, James R ^d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; DESFLURANE; HELIUM; INERT GAS; KRYPTON; NEON; NITROGEN; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031872986     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199808000-00035     Document Type: Article

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