Blocking effects of the anaesthetic etomidate on human brain sodium channels

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 131-134

  Frenkel, Christian ^a   Weckbecker, Klaus ^a,b   Wartenberg, Hans C ^a   Duch, Daniel S ^c   Urban, Bernd W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain (human); Etomidate; Hypnotic; Lipid bilayer; Mechanism of action; Voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIPID BILAYER; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BATRACHOTOXINS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETOMIDATE; HUMANS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0032546901     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00412-1     Document Type: Article

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