Are cholinergic pathways involved in the anesthetic response to α2 agonists

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 100-101, Issue , 1998, Pages 17-22

  Buttermann, Ann E ^a   Reid, Kristina ^a   Maze, Mervyn ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Agonists; Anesthetic response; Cholinergic pathways

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HALOTHANE; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; HYPNOSIS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANESTHETICS; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; CALCIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRICETINAE; GUINEA PIGS; HALOTHANE; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; MALE; MEDETOMIDINE; MICRODIALYSIS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; PHYSOSTIGMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2;

EID: 0032418259     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00160-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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