The effects of general anesthetics on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in area CA1 of the rat hippocampus in vitro

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 676-680

  Wakasugi, Masahiro ^a   Hirota, Koki ^a   Roth, Sheldon H ^b   Ito, Yusuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033016526     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199903000-00039     Document Type: Article

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