The combined effects of halothane and lamotrigine on excitatory postsynaptic potentials and use-dependent block in the rat dentate gyrus in vitro

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 496-501

  Frizelle, Henry P ^a   Moriarty, Denis C ^a   O'Connor, John J ^b  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; HALOTHANE; LAMOTRIGINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HALOTHANE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0032772079     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199908000-00047     Document Type: Article

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