Propofol sedation produces dose-dependent suppression of lidocaine- induced seizures in rats

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 652-657

  Lee, Victor C ^a   Moscicki, Jeffrey C ^a   Difazio, Cosmo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PROPOFOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEART ARREST; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOTONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEDATION; SEIZURE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEART RATE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LIDOCAINE; MALE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION; SEIZURES;

EID: 0031910873     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199803000-00040     Document Type: Article

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